Vietnam War Blog #3

The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that was fought by communists of North Vietnam and its southern allies against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict.
Weapons used in the Vietnam War were the most powerful than any other war. United States and South Vietnamese forces relied heavily on their superior air power, aircrafts that dropped thousands of pounds of explosives. Communist forces used weapons manufactured in the Soviet Union and China. Among the more devastating explosives used in U.S. and South Vietnamese bombing runs was napalm, a chemical compound developed during World War 2. When mixed with gasoline and included in incendiary bombs or flamethrowers, napalm could be propelled greater distances than gasoline and released large amounts of carbon monoxide when it exploded, poisoning the air and causing even greater damage than traditional bombs.