The Vietnam War was fought from 1955 to 1975. As with any wars, there were many people who died on both sides. About 200,000 Americans died during the Vietnam War; their names can be found on the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C....
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The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and also known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam. Australia only sent troops in because of fear of communism, this fair invited many oth...
“The majority of Americans didn’t want the Vietnamese here,” says Bui. “The refugees were a stark reminder of a lost war and were seen as an economic burden. It wasn’t a very welcoming climate.” From 1979 to 1999, an additional 500,000 refugees arrived as part of the UN’s ...
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, on the other hand, is an entirely different kind of public monument. It uses stark simplicity — a black, semi-reflective wall etched with names — to honor and mourn the sacrifice of the nearly 60,000 American men and women who died in the Vietnam War. ...
Many of them were ages 18-20, and thus legally prohibited from voting. But while the issue burned hotter in the Vietnam era and ultimately led to change, the battle to lower the legal voting age was hardly new. Push to Lower Voting Age Began in World War II...
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Because after years and years of the Pilgrims and the Native Americans getting along, Christianity was starting to seep into their culture. And they needed to go to war with the tribe. And the war that the way they used to fight it, the Native Americans, it was okay to enslave your ene...
particular for the last hundred years in Hollywood film.7 Like many American conflicts, the Vietnam war was rested upon a flagrant and purposeful mendacity, that in an act of war an American patrol boat had been attacked in international waters at the Gulf of Tonkin by the North Vietnamese...