NEW YORK - APRIL 29: A man places his hand on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial where the names of 58 thousand Americans killed in the Vietnam War are listed April 29, 2005 in Washington, DC. Thirty years have passed since the end of the Vietnam War on April 30, 1975. On April 29, the North Vietnamese army took over Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, and the last U.S. troops left Vietnam. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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The Vietnam War pitted communist North Vietnam and the Viet Cong against South Vietnam and the United States. The war ended when U.S. forces withdrew in 1973 and Vietnam unified under Communist control two years later.

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The 1960s was one of the most tumultuous and divisive decades in world history. The era was marked by the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and antiwar protests, countercultural movements, political assassinations and the emerging "generation gap."

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