Vietnam was a battleground in the Cold War when the United States and the Soviet Union grappled for world domination. By the war’s end, North and South Vietnam would be reunited, but at great cost. Here are six events that led to the Vietnam War. ...
During the late fifties, Vietnam was divided into a communist North and anti-communist South. Because of theCold Waranxiety of the time, the general feeling was that, should the North Vietnamese communists win, the remainder of Southeast Asia would also fall to communism. When President John ...
William H. Crawford also ran as a well-known candidate, having previously served as Secretary of War and Secretary of the Treasury. John C. Calhoun of South Carolina had originally intended to run for president as well, but he withdrew and ran a successful race for vice-president.View...
The Vietnam War Commemoration is conducted according to the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act to help honor and pay tribute to Vietnam Veterans and their families.
Virginia & The Vietnam War.Fifty years since the Fall of Saigon, Virginians still feel the impact of the Vietnam War, a long, costly, and controversial conflict. This exhibit examines, through personal objects and oral histories, what Virginia’s soldiers, policy makers, families, activists, ...
Bob Kerrey Recalls His Idyllic Youth, and Fatal Events of the Vietnam War.(BOOKS)
April 23: Several hundred students gathered on the campus of Columbia University in New York City to protest the Vietnam War, as well as the university’s plan to build a gymnasium on public land in Harlem. For nearly a week, the student protesters occupied several buildings on Columbia’s...
these pots may have been used for cooking and storage. Pottery and stone tools from shell middens in southern China also suggestIncipientNeolithic occupations. These early southern sites may have been related to the Neolithic Bac Son culture in Vietnam; connections to the subsequent Neolithic cultur...
Vietnam War Applying the Domino Theory to communist North Vietnam’s effort to reunite the two Vietnams that had emerged from the Indochina Wars, the U.S. provided military aid to South Vietnam beginning in 1954 and troops beginning in 1961. The U.S. presence eventually swelled to ...
1856, pro-enslavement supporters in Missouri—known as the "Border Ruffians"—sacked Lawrence, Kansas, which was known to be a staunch free-state area. One day later, violence occurred on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Congressman Preston Brooks, who favored enslavement, attacked Sen. Charles...