8 mai 1959 - Ho Chi Minh Trail

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The Ho Chi Minh Trail was a North Vietnamese-made trail that ran through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam. This 'supply route' was used in order to advance the communist's guerrilla attacks on the South Vietnamese and United States. The significance of this trail was that it told the US that the issue in Vietnam was spreading internationally; something they had wished to contain to only Vietnam. With this,