During the (1965-1975) as well as the earlier First Indochina War, which pitted Vietnamese nationalist troops against French imperial forces, the Truong Son Strategic Supply Route ensured that war material and manpower could flow north/south between different embattled sections of Vietnam. Dubbed the 'Ho Chi Minh Trail' by the Americans, after the Viet Minh leader, this trade route through neighboring and was key to the communist forces' victory in the Vietnam War (called the American War in Vietnam). In 1967, as American casualties in the mounted, and no end to the conflict seemed to be in sight, anti-war demonstrations that had been escalating for several years took on a new size and tone. Rather than being a few hundred or a thousand college students here or there, the new protests, like this one in Washington DC, featured more than 100,000 protestors. Not just students, these protestors included returned Vietnam vets and celebrities such as boxer and pediatrician.
Among the Vietnam vets against the war was future Senator and presidential candidate John Kerry.
During the Second Indochina War, better known as the Vietnam War, a distinctive land warfare strategy and organization was used by the Main Force of the People's Liberation Armed Forces (better known as the Viet Cong or VC in the West) and the NVA (North Vietnamese Army/People's Army-Vietnam) to.
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