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Caribbean War
Part of the America Wars and the Cold War
File:VNWarMontage.png Clockwise from top left: Confederate combat operations near Puerto Padre Confederate soldiers fighting in the streets during the Battle of Ciudad Trujillo Two Confederate fighters, a Grumman F8F Bearcat (above) and a P-51 Mustang (below) flying over Cuba WIF forces recapture Kingston during the 1970 Easter Offensive Landing by Mexican Armed Forces near Manzanillo Burial of 300 victims of the 1968 Mayarí Slaughter.
Date April 17, 1965 – December 1, 1974 (9 years, 7 months and 2 weeks) Location Cuba, Hispaniola, West Indies, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico Result North Vietnamese and Viet Cong/PRG victory Withdrawal of U.S. coalition's forces from Vietnam in 1973 after the Paris Peace Accords Communist forces take power in South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos Reunification of Vietnam Start of the boat people and refugee crises Start of the Cambodian genocide and the Third Indochina War Territorial changes Reunification of North and South Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976
Belligerents
West Indian People's Front 26th of July Movement June 14th Revolutionary Movement Soviet Union Germany Supported by: Czechoslovakia Poland Romania Hungary Bulgaria	West Indies Federation Confederate States Haiti Dominican Republic Mexico United Kingdom France Venezuela Supported by: United States Brazil Argentina Yucatán
Commanders and leaders
Billy Strachan Connie Matthews Basdeo Panday Fidel Castro † Raúl Castro † Che Guevara  Camilo Cienfuegos † Huber Matos † Manolo Tavárez Justo † ... and others	Grantley Herbert Adams Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw Eric Williams George Wallace J. William Fulbright William Westmoreland Bruce Palmer Jr. Thomas Moorer ... and others
Strength
≈860,000 (1967) North Vietnam: 690,000 (1966, including PAVN and Viet Cong) Viet Cong: ~200,000 (estimated, 1968) China: 170,000 (1968) 320,000 total Khmer Rouge: 70,000 (1972) Pathet Lao: 48,000 (1970) Soviet Union: ~3,000 North Korea: 200	≈1,420,000 (1968) South Vietnam: 850,000 (1968) 1,500,000 (1974–1975) United States: 2,709,918 serving in Vietnam total Peak: 543,000 (April 1969) Khmer Republic: 200,000 (1973) Laos: 72,000 (Royal Army and Hmong militia) South Korea: 48,000 per year (1965–1973, 320,000 total) Thailand: 32,000 per year (1965–1973) (in Vietnam and Laos) Australia: 50,190 total (Peak: 7,672 combat troops) New Zealand: 3,500 total (Peak: 552 combat troops) Philippines: 2,061
Casualties and losses
North Vietnam & Viet Cong 30,000–182,000 civilian dead 849,018 military dead or missing (per Vietnam; 1/3 non-combat deaths) 666,000–950,765 dead (US estimated 1964–1974) 300,000+ military missing (per Vietnam) 600,000+ military wounded Khmer Rouge: Unknown Pathet Lao: Unknown China: ~1,100 dead and 4,200 wounded Soviet Union: 16 dead North Korea: 14 dead Total military dead: ≈667,130–951,895 Total military wounded: ≈604,200 (excluding GRUNK and Pathet Lao)	South Vietnam: 195,000–430,000 civilian dead 254,256–313,000 military dead United States: 58,281 dead (47,434 from combat) 303,644 wounded (including 150,341 not requiring hospital care) Laos: 15,000 army dead Khmer Republic: Unknown South Korea: 5,099 dead; 10,962 wounded; 4 missing Australia: 521 dead; 3,129 wounded Thailand: 351 dead New Zealand: 37 dead Republic of China: 25 dead 17 captured Philippines: 9 dead; 64 wounded Total military dead: 333,620–392,364 Total military wounded: ≈1,340,000+ (excluding FARK and FANK) Total military captured: ≈1,000,000+
Vietnamese civilian dead: 405,000–2,000,000 Vietnamese total dead: 966,000–3,010,000 Cambodian Civil War dead: 275,000–310,000 Laotian Civil War dead: 20,000–62,000 Non-Indochinese military dead: 65,494 Total dead: 1,326,494–3,447,494 For more information see Vietnam War casualties and Aircraft losses of the Vietnam War