. Simply it took America’s self image and through it in the garbage. The Vietnam war, for the Americans, was an unwinnable war. The half a million United States troops as well as the 700,000 southern Vietnamese troops were no match for the 250,000 northern vietnamese troops. The...
Vietnam War (redirected from Resistance War Against America)Also found in: Thesaurus, Legal. Vietnam War n. A protracted military conflict (1954-1975) between South Vietnam, supported by United States forces, and Communist North Vietnam. The war resulted in a North Vietnamese victory and ...
Latinas and Latinos as part of the larger narratives of the Cold War.In "Mexican America in a Post-Vietnam War Era," oral histories and demographic analyses frame Summers Sandoval's examination of the ways the war enabled the integration of Mexican American veterans and their families into ...
Effects of the Civil Rights Movement Two measurable effects of the Civil Rights Movement were President Lyndon Johnson's signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the passage in the following year of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. These acts marked a symbolic and legal c...
Warfare in Vietnam, Big Story correspondent Jason Motlaugh hears directly from the survivors of a conflict that ended in 1975 but is still claiming victims to this day. Read More... September 29, 2024 Big Story – Buried, U.S. Bombs in Laos The dark story behind America’s “Secret...
Winston Groom is perhaps most notable as the author of the novelForrest Gump. Don’t sleep on his narrative histories. They are terrific: compelling, clear, human, personal, funny even sometimes. Winston Groom was in the Vietnam War. When it comes to battle he writes like he knows what ...
1.8.1.1 Korean War 1.8.1.2 Vietnam War 1.8.2 1960s 1.8.3 Assassination of John F. Kennedy 1.8.4 1970s 1.8.4.1 Watergate Scandal 1.8.4.2 Russian-Afghan War 1.8.5 1980s 1.8.5.1 Iran-Contra Affair 1.8.6 1990s 1.8.7 Clinton–Lewinsky Scandal 1.9 21st Century 1.9.1 2000s 1.10 ...
Rejecting War It’s in the nature of militaries to train their soldiers to hate, maim, and kill the enemy, but in the midst of the Vietnam War — I had, by then, made it out of my neighborhood and my world — something challenged this trained-to-kill belief system and it began to...
The Vietnam War lasted from 1954 to 1975 it involved the deployment of US troops to Vietnam to fight the communist insurgence. In 1973 North Vietnam and South Vietnam continue fighting but without significant U.S. involvement. It ended with communist victory in 1975 with the fall of Saigon...
Effects of the Great Depression in Brazil To understand the causes and effects of the Great Depression in Brazil, it is crucial to begin with the Revolution of 1930. After the First World War, Brazil's economy was doing well, but it suffered when the economy crashed because most of its re...