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| Hanoi During an Air Raid Alert Vietnam 1967 |
Hanoi is the capital of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
The population of Hanoi was the capital of Northern Vietnam between 1954 and 1976. Its population is 6,232,940 (2008).
Hanoi, the center of the French colonial government for many years, was occupied by Japan in World War II. The city was the capital of the Vietnam Socialist Republic on 2 July 1976.
The Vietnam War or the Second Indochinese War is the battle between the Eastern Bloc countries, the North Vietnamese, the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union, and the anti-communist South Vietnam, which is the US supporter, and the USA in particular. After the Korean War, it became the second hot battle of the Cold War. US troops were involved in the war from 1963 to 1973, and about 60,000 soldiers were killed.
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