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Vietnam War Countries

Name the countries that suffered at least 300 deaths in the Second Indochina War from 1955-1975.
Includes civilian and military casualties. Source
Only includes nations that had international recognition in 1955
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Last updated: January 1, 2020
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First submittedMay 4, 2012
Times taken36,704
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Deaths
Country
1,062,000
North Vietnam
741,000
South Vietnam
273,000
Cambodia
62,000
Laos
58,315
United States
Deaths
Country
5,099
South Korea
1,446
China
500
Australia
351
Thailand
mammix
+4
Level 56
Mar 16, 2017
USSR? I know, officially they didn't go there, but in reality they did and their soldiers died there. So did soldiers and officers from other nations of the Warsaw Pact (example- Ryszard Kukliński, although he survived).
Djilas
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Level 78
Mar 16, 2017
The source linked above says only about 16 casualties for USSR.
cyninoregon
+3
Level 36
Jun 20, 2017
I believe Russia supplied tanks and MIGs. Probably AK47s or their predecessors, and other things, esp intelligence. Remember, Communist China was younger, not as technological. This was a Cold War conflict.....all you heard from Republican politicians was the Domino Theory. They were certain all of Asia would go communistic if we did not keep South Vietnam non-communist.
PHG1960
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Level 63
Jun 20, 2017
I heard that from the Democrats as well...you know, JFK and LBJ really ramped up US involvement and it was DDE that kept our involvement minimal and Nixon/Ford that got us out.
csebaseven
+4
Level 26
Jun 22, 2017
Al -Qaeda got us involved in Afghanistan. Bush got us involved in Iraq.
Malbaby
+1
Level 70
Jan 12, 2020
Bush's advisers got the USA involved.
tshalla
+4
Level 70
Sep 21, 2020
Back to Indochina for a second, Democrats were hardly less hawkish than Republicans.
GrandMo
+1
Level 73
Mar 16, 2017
Finally remembered something from my college Korean history class. Even though it took me 2 minutes to do so.
dbyeti
+3
Level 63
Mar 16, 2017
Depressing that only 81% get Australia.
cpgatbyu
+12
Level 80
Mar 18, 2017
Australia lost fewer than Arkansas. When you think of Vietnam, do you think of Arkansas?
cpgatbyu
+8
Level 80
Mar 18, 2017
Not to mention less than Wayne County.
AdamC0912
+2
Level 77
Jun 19, 2017
haha @kalbahamut
rama2008
+18
Level 66
Jun 20, 2017
This is a depressingly inarticulate way to express the argument against people remembering Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War.
JackintheBox
+2
Level 68
Jan 12, 2020
Do, because Arkansas is not a country.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 81
Oct 11, 2020
Did I make a joke here that got deleted months later? :-( What's Adam laughing at?
Moosefight
+5
Level 67
Jun 19, 2017
I was also surprised. Australia's been one of the USA's staunchest military allies, joining in pretty much every war for the past 100 years with the US, even the unpopular ones like Vietnam and Iraq.
howard38
+8
Level 60
Jun 19, 2017
Fewer got South Korea and they lost ten times as many as Australia.
KataJ
+5
Level 40
Jun 21, 2017
Australia less than double the amount of castlemagner, a tiny village in ireland that is in the middle of nowhere
bkemp2001
+2
Level 57
Sep 21, 2020
Honestly, I got Australia just guessing, so it seems to me that the % is actually high.
kapulani3
+13
Level 71
Mar 19, 2017
100% guessed United States but only 89% guessed North and South Vietnam -- where the war took place?
travelfan
+24
Level 71
Mar 19, 2017
Possibly there were a lot of people who did the same thing I did: typed "Vietnam" and when it didn't work, thought that it was excluded from the start because it was the subject of the quiz. It's only a minute before the end, after trying every country in the vicinity and around the Pacific without finding the top 2 slots, that I remembered Vietnam was separated into two countries at the time.
bkemp2001
+1
Level 57
Jun 19, 2017
That's exactly what I did.
Corrode
+1
Level 61
Jun 20, 2017
Yeah it took me a minute to think of the split.
McElspeth
+1
Level 48
Jun 20, 2017
Yea when I typed Vietnam and it didn't come up I thought it was excluded. Even tried Viet Cong thinking perhaps...
Jerry928
+8
Level 74
Mar 20, 2017
This quiz can now be done in Vietnamese, where this war is known as the American War.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 81
Jun 19, 2017
France?
kshanti
+12
Level 58
Jun 19, 2017
That's generally seen as a different war, The First Indochina war. What Americans consider the Vietnam War is the Second Indochina war (or American war for the Vietnamese).
divantilya
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Level 37
Mar 7, 2019
^ If France is to be excluded, then the range should be changed from 1955-1975 to somewhere around 1960 to 1975. JFK first sent "advisors" in 1961, and LBJ escalated by sending troops in 1965. So the US involvement would be closer to 14 years, not twenty.
isdaril
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Level 47
Oct 2, 2019
Nah, the war against france is called indochina war, started in 1946 and finished in 1954
jajaco2017
+1
Level 60
Jun 19, 2017
please accept

USA

ander217
+3
Level 78
Jun 19, 2017
It worked for me.
Antofagasta
+5
Level 47
Jun 19, 2017
Why on earth would it not accept USA?
cyninoregon
+1
Level 36
Jun 20, 2017
Why isn't France included?
Malbaby
+2
Level 70
Sep 21, 2020
France was at war in Vietnam 46 to 54 and was a colonial war, France fighting to keep it's colonial foothold in South East Asia. A different war to the North / South Vietnam war.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 81
Sep 21, 2020
Really the same ongoing conflict. Just the allies of the south changed.
CorkSpork
+2
Level 71
Aug 1, 2017
I missed China. ... CHINA.
Dijko
+1
Level 45
Jan 12, 2018
France? I mean Vietnam was a French Colony...And I somehow forgot South Korea
anto91
+2
Level 59
Sep 21, 2020
Here it's the second Indochina war. French casualties occurred mainly during the first one between 1945 and 1954.
someone2018
+1
Level 82
Jun 24, 2018
I'm puzzled 96% got China even though their role was extremely limited. I mean, only 77% for South Vietnam or North Vietnam...
cornflakesfu
+2
Level 81
Aug 1, 2018
People just guess as many Asian countries as they can. "China" is more obvious than "North/South Vietnam" because those countries no longer exist (or at least are no longer referred to as such).
LincolnIsTheBestOne
+1
Level 66
Feb 27, 2019
Got them all with 2:11 remaining.
gzx5
+1
Level 56
May 27, 2019
Didn't New Zealand send troops too?
dogmeat
+2
Level 56
Dec 18, 2019
a token force in response to the implied threat of sanctions from LBJ "only" 37 fatalities.
Lemonminer
+2
Level 43
Dec 13, 2019
LOL, the only two I missed were North Vietnam and South Vietnam, I was too focused on other countries and didn't even think about them.
CUFCDarren
+1
Level 34
Sep 21, 2020
Same as me. Us Brits aren't a war going nation so I'm normally lost on these type of quizzes!
kalbahamut
+8
Level 81
Sep 21, 2020
you're joking, right?
AlexThirkell
+1
Level 62
Sep 21, 2020
Yeah I was looking at the top two thinking there was something sneaky going on... Just remembered it in time!
JesseH
+3
Level 44
Sep 21, 2020
Americans are the best and have won every war
BrennoAU
+7
Level 32
Sep 21, 2020
Was going to comment on a terrible American war loss and then realised my country (Australia) once lost a war to emus
Zolder
+1
Level 65
Sep 21, 2020
Interesting I've just done this quiz yesterday and today it is featured. Felt like a déjà vu when I saw it on the top of the page
wassallthatabout
+2
Level 43
Sep 21, 2020
Tried Vietnam twice - turns out my history sucks - I didn't know there was a North and South Vietnam...
Aksenov
+1
Level 18
Sep 21, 2020
same here hahaha, i got all countries except for South and North Viet Nam. Tried Vietnam thrice. hehehe.
kevlarkev
+1
Level 50
Sep 21, 2020
Got them all, san South Korea. Rookie move....only typed Korea.
FlyingG
+1
Level 52
Sep 22, 2020
I know Kampuchea is Khmer for Cambodia, but didn't everyone call it Kampuchea back then? You should accept it.
Pandora49
+1
Level 51
Sep 23, 2020
^ Completely agree
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