{"id":820892,"date":"2026-08-21T10:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/820892\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T10:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:32:17","slug":"the-vietnam-war-a-trauma-that-lives-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/820892\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vietnam War: A Trauma That Lives On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vietnam War (1955-1975) was a brutal civil war and proxy war in which the superpowers &#8211; United States and the Soviet Union \u2013 competed for influence in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>North Vietnam was communist and was supported by China and the Soviet Union with weapons and advisers. South Vietnam aligned itself with the United States, which also began supporting it with troops starting in 1965.<\/p>\n<p>By the late 1960s, protests against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War had reached their peak. After eight years of combat operations involving half a million soldiers and the use of chemical weapons, the U.S. withdrew its troops in 1973. By the end of the war, the country was devastated and contaminated; millions of soldiers, including 60,000 Americans, and civilians had died. All of Vietnam became communist. The psychological and political consequences of the Vietnam War continue to be felt to this day.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Broadcasting Hours:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DW English<\/p>\n<p>SAT 22.08.2026\u00a0\u2013 05:02 UTC<br \/>SAT 22.08.2026\u00a0\u2013 10:30\u00a0UTC<br \/>SUN 23.08.2026\u00a0\u2013 07:30\u00a0UTC<br \/>SUN 23.08.2026\u00a0\u2013 12:30\u00a0UTC<br \/>SUN 23.08.2026\u00a0\u2013 15:30\u00a0UTC<br \/>TUE 25.08.2026\u00a0\u2013 06:30\u00a0UTC<br \/>THU 27.08.2026\u00a0\u2013 00:30\u00a0UTC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vietnam War (1955-1975) was a brutal civil war and proxy war in which the superpowers &#8211; United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-820892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}