<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (February 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (February 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Various names have been applied what is known as the Vietnam War . These have shifted over time, although Vietnam War is the most commonly used title in English . It has been variously called the Second Indochina War, the Vietnam Conflict, the Vietnam War, and Nam . In Vietnam it is commonly known as Kháng chiến chống Mỹ (Resistance War against America). </P> <P> The name "Second Indochina War" places the conflict into context with other distinct, but related, and contiguous conflicts in Southeast Asia . Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia are seen as the battlegrounds of a larger Indochinese conflict that began at the end of World War II and lasted until communist victory in 1975 . This conflict can be viewed in terms of the demise of colonialism and its after - effects during the Cold War . </P>

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