Fig. 3. The Selden map of China with shipping routes highlighted. The north–south line marks approximately the central axis of the map, which should pass through Beijing in the north and just off the Vietnam coast at Champa in the south (see Fig. 2). Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS ...
My Lai Massacre, mass killing of as many as 500 unarmed villagers byU.S.soldiers in the hamlet of My Lai on March 16, 1968, during theVietnam War. Charlie Company Vietnam War theaterA map of North and South Vietnam during the Vietnam War showing major air bases and the communists' su...
and noncombatant engineers augmented U.S. forces in theVietnam War. Crucial to U.S. military action inVietnamwere bases in the Philippines. The Military Bases Agreement was the greatest single cause of friction in relations between the United States and the Philippines. Beginning in 1965, howev...
nation’s large oil reserves, canceling a large debt Iraq owed Kuwait, and expanding Iraqi power in the region. It was the first major international crisis of the post-Cold Warera, and theU.S.-led response would set important precedents for the use of military force over subsequent decades...
Ford had even greater problems, not all of them of his own making. He had inherited an administration plagued by theWatergate scandal, the inglorious end to the war in Vietnam, the worst recession since theGreat Depressionof the 1930s, and the worst inflation in U.S. history. He was the...