While the war established Vietnam as a potent military power in Southeast Asia, the massive scale of the armed conflict ...
In fall of 1967 in a jungle in Vietnam, a Viet Cong ambush nearly wiped out an American battalion. On a campus in Wisconsin, a student protest against the war spiraled out of control. April, 1975.
The war had been over for Americans since 1973; North Vietnam defeated South Vietnam, reuniting the country by force in 1975. Still, Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter believed the fates of thousands of ...
The end of the Vietnam War brought waves of refugees fleeing communism to the United States and other countries. Some of them ...
Indeed, from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2, 1971, more than 100 American Vietnam veterans and 16 civilians gathered in a Detroit hotel to testify about the war crimes they had witnessed in South Vietnam.
The Vietnam War was a protracted conflict that spanned nearly two decades. From 1955 to 1975, the skies over Southeast Asia became a crucible for technological innovation and tactical evolution.
American tactics in Vietnam can be summed up by the acronym BEAST.
During the Vietnam War, from 1955 to 1975, Ho Chi Minh City, known as Saigon, was the Southern Vietnamese capital. The National Liberation Front and North Vietnamese troops used the tunnels for ...
there were very few American troops in Vietnam. A year later, the North attacked the South, and in 1975, Saigon fell. The war was over. More than 55,000 Americans were killed, and more than 1 ...
Ngo Din Diem’s government was unpopular with ordinary people in South Vietnam, and so it was no surprise when they began to give their support to an opposition organisation - the National ...