A timeline of events leading up to and surrounding the Battle of Ong Thanh and the protests ... becoming the first American casualty of the Vietnam War. Following a breakdown in negotiations ...
Did you guys know the Vietnam War really kicked off after WWII? Vietnam wanted independence from France, but France wasn’t ...
Michael Lind argues that the United States had to fight in Vietnam to prove that its word had meaning and that the allies ...
Lindsay to examine the lessons of the Vietnam War. Fifty Years After the Tet Offensive: Lessons From the Vietnam War Panelists discuss the fiftieth anniversary of the Tet Offensive, launched in ...
Many became victims of the increasingly brutal Vietnam ... American «war progress.» This new measure of success had been introduced by the United States and its allies after the Battle of ...
Troyer told his family that he didn't "feel like marchin' in any protest march against Vietnam, but this war is worthless." The majority of American soldiers never witnessed large-scale battles ...
The USA would ultimately drop three million tonnes of bombs in Vietnam - more than all the bombs dropped in Europe during World War Two ... made sure they picked battles they would be able ...
In 1954, the French were finally defeated by the Viet Minh at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. This defeat was formalised in the Geneva Agreement and temporarily separated Vietnam into two zones ...