The NVA (North Vietnamese Army) was the term given to the Vietnam Peoples Army (VPA/Quân Đội Nhân Dân Việt Nam) by US forces during the Vietnam - American War. Funded by leading communist countries, they had weapons mainly from China and Russia, as well as weapons left from previous conflicts. They fought the French during the first Indo-China war, and then the United States in the second. They defeated both countries and took full control of Vietnam in 1975.

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