Yes but they wanted to unify into a communist country and the United States didn't want South Vietnam to become communist
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Both parts of Vietnam were battle sites of the war.
They did take place
Like the US Civil War in the 1860s the Vietnam War in the 1960s divided America.
We were fighting both the North Vietnamese Army, and the "Viet Cong." Viet Cong translates to People's Army. They were mostly South Vietnamese citizens recruited by North Vietnam agents to help the North fight to unify Viet Nam. Both armies were supplied with Chinese and Russian military equipment and weapons.
It made Unionists angry.