Learn about the international incident that escalated American involvement in the Vietnam War. Watch now StoriesSee All Featured 7 Iconic Photos From the Vietnam War Era Gifted photographers and reporters captured images that conveyed the agony and violence of the Vietnam war, and the deep division...
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I enteredhigh schoolin the middle 60’s when the war in Vietnam was escalating at a rapid pace. Newspapers and magazines were plastered with photos and stories about our involvement in Vietnam. The top stories on the nightly world news were always about the war. Newsmen were often in the...
This was, in part, due to reporter Walter Cronkite announcing to his audience that the war was likely to end in stalemate. It also included setbacks with the Tet Offensive. What follows is a timeline of important dates in the anti-war movement....
From the start of the human existence until the European involvement, Vietnam remained isolated from foreign involvements and was governed by local kingdoms and government. Human existence dates back to approx. 50,000 years ago. This was predicted by the discovery of fossils and remains in the ...
475 Words 2 Pages Open Document Distortion of reality and conflicting effects From the 1968 Tet Offensive on, the presence of the American media’s selectivity bias must be observed to adequately assess the extent of impact the media’s coverage had on the war’s development. After Tet, the ...
Bethea MD, LCDR USNR Flight Surgeon, CVW-1, USS J.F. KENNEDY CVA-67 1968-75 Flying over North Vietnam during the U.S. air war was dangerous enough for armed fighters and attack aircraft, but even more so for the Navy and Marine Corps photo-reconnaissance pilots who flew the ...
As I said earlier, PSYOP wasn't seen as a traditional Army role so Headquarters seemed to be just humoring us. Most Australian Army effort apart from combat went into Civil Affairs and the engineers. The "Wandering Soul" Used in Another Campaign Long after the war was over the United Stat...
Cambodia - Tai, Vietnamese, HEGEMONY: The little that is known of Khmer history in the years following the abandonment of Angkor is a confusing mixture of uncertain dates, mythical figures, and complex dynastic rivalries. Cambodian chronicles for that pe
involvement in the 1963 coup that overthrew the South Vietnamese president, Ngo Dinh Diem, foreordained the Americanization of the war. Such arguments, he claims, simply "do not persuade" (p. 74). Logevall's thesis is clear, if frequently exaggerated. American escalation of the Vietnam War...