The Vietnam War took place after the First Indochina War. In fact, the Vietnam War is also known as the Second Indochina War. This war included communist North Vietnam and its Viet Cong allies, the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies against South Vietnam and its allies, the United States, the Philippines and other anti-communist allies . It was a very long and divisive war that began in 1954 and ended in 1975. The war began after Ho Chi Minh and his Communist Party came to power in North Vietnam. More than three million people were killed during the war, including approximately 58,000 Americans, and more than half of the victims were actually Vietnamese civilians. The Vietnam War ended with communist forces relinquishing control of Saigon, and the following year the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Many people, both men and women, were directly and indirectly involved in the war itself. Women played many different roles during the Vietnam War, and they certainly don't get enough recognition for all that they actually did. Many women played roles in the Vietnam War, although their exact number is unknown. Many believe this number to be between 4,000 and 15,000, which is a huge range. This includes women working as military nurses, doctors, air traffic controllers, smart officers, clerks and many other positions in the US military. Some women worked for the U.S. Army while others worked for the Air Force and even the Marines. The gist of this is that none of these women were drafted, they all volunteered to go to the battlefields. Many women who volunteered for the Vietnam War were volunteer nurses. At the time of... middle of article, they weren't getting the credit they deserve. This group of women is known as civilian women in Vietnam. We don't really know how many women make up this group, but we know that this number is quite large. Many of these women worked for the American Red Cross, Army Special Services, American organizations, the Peace Corps, and various religious groups such as Catholic Relief Services. Many of these members did not stay in Vietnam, many of them traveled abroad. Women who volunteered in the army's special services worked in libraries, service clubs and even stores. These stores were intended to stimulate the enthusiasm of soldiers deployed to Vietnam. Other women traveled and worked as journalists, following the war and the soldiers' involvement. There were 59 civilian women who died during the Vietnam War.