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 ...
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.
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 did not arise overnight. Rather it was a consequence of imperialistic power play around the world and paranoia of the Cold War. After World War II, Vietnam remained under the shackles ...
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 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.
A series of images by Eddie Adams leading up to the killing of Nguyen Van Lem Photojournalist Eddie Adams captured one of the most famous images of the Vietnam War - the very instant of an ...