In Vietnam, the Americans actually fought â therefore in the Cold War âgameâ, the USSR could not. However, to support the Communist cause, the Soviet Union armed its fellow Communist state, China, who would, in turn, arm and equip the North Vietnamese who fought the Americans. Before World War Two, Vietnam had been part of the French Empire. During the war, the country had been overrun by the Japanese. When the Japanese retreated, the people of Vietnam took the opportunity to establish their own government lead by Ho Chi Minh.
Gross (unit) A gross refers to a group of 144 items (a dozen dozen or a square dozen). A great gross refers to a group of 1728 items (a dozen gross or a cubic dozen). A small gross or a great hundred refers to a group of 120 items (ten dozen).
Grossly normal means that the larger picture is normal. In medical terminology there is fine and gross. Gross is the larger picture which fine tends to be smaller . It has nothing to do with the term as we know it 'gross'. Actually the definition of gross in the dictionary is overall, total.