South Vietnam’s prime minister, Ngo Dinh Diem, a hardline Catholic, fervent nationalist, and committed anti-communist, was immediately faced with domestic turmoil caused by armed militias threatening the new government. However, the fledgling army had four battalions of well-trained, well-discipline...
LE DUC THO, 79, WAS COFOUNDER OF VIETNAMESE COMMUNIST PARTYAssociated Press
In May, 1972, the onetime redbaiter visited Moscow--just two weeks after the Soviet Union had vehemently criticized a new round of U.S. air attacks launched on North Vietnam in a double-edged effort to blunt a communist offensive in the South and to jolt the Hanoi regime into serious p...
Australia In The Vietnam War Essay Topic 5 – Australia in the Vietnam War AUSTRALIA’S RESPONSE TO THE THREAT OF COMMUNISM IN ASIA AFTER WWII Korean War: * 1945‚ Japan was forced out of Korea – country became divided along thaw 38th parallel. * Northern – Russian....
Jews are masters at fomenting political revolution and social unrests: they had their hidden hands at the French Revolution, the American Revolution, the American Civil War, World War I and World War II, the Vietnam War, and the Iraq War. Zionist Jews were responsible for the Armenian Hol...
We were children during Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement. We didn’t know AIDS was coming. We were at a loss to define ourselves individually and as a generation, but we didn’t worry about it too much. We danced to the Tams singing “Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy” and we ...
General Daud’s statement was clearly not expected, as all the concerned governments were vigorously pedalling the notion that the plane was lost in the Gulf of Thailand, and all search and rescue efforts got misdirected to the plane’s intended route. The Communist Vietnamese government even ...
The Refugee Act of 1980 answered the obvious need in post-Vietnam America for an updated immigration policy. The legislation amended the earlier Immigration and Nationality Act and the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act, raising the annual refugee cap from 17,400 to 50,000 and putting in place...
He was captured and spent 6 years in a communist Vietnamese prison.One day, Plumb and his wife were sitting in a restaurant when a man from another table came up and said “You’re Plumb! You flew jet fighters in Viet Nam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were shot down!”...
he was of age to have enlisted in the United States Army to help fight in Vietnam . . . but he didn’t.His draft lotter number was 171, so he was kind of on the cusp of being called up to serve, but in any event, never served a single day in uniform. Being Jewish, Mr Kris...