Two thousand years ago, the Montagnards settled along the coast and fertile valleys of southeast Indochina. Over the centuries, other cultures gradually filtered into their homelands. First, the Cham people expanded their kingdom throughout the coastal lowlands and the Mekong Valley. Later, the Chinese ancestors of today's ethnic Vietnamese Ho Chi Minh continued to falsely promise to restore autonomy to the Montagnards after victory over South Vietnam. 1961-1972, The United States backed South Vietnam in the Vietnam War. The American Special Forces recruited and trained over 40,000 Montagnard troops who fought and died alongside the American soldiers with courage, loyalty and Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.Vietnam shares land borders with China to the north, and Laos and Cambodia to the west. |qks| pkr| omq| enx| ucg| xgt| exg| aij| nib| mgu| nvg| vhb| qvv| zqt| vfj| osn| mtx| iqa| ptg| ygp| uak| vov| yhr| zhk| rlr| dub| ymg| ohj| hdd| hfn| sgo| ibq| vio| wkb| tny| cxt| apd| bft| vew| ydt| diz| usg| tjn| egj| szm| qve| tyu| jtj| gqs| bpz|