Background to the Vietnam War:At the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, Ho Chi Minh and a small group of Vietnamese nationalists met with President Wilson and asked for his support for an independent Vietnam, but unwilling to cause conflict with our French allies, President Wilson rebuffed the...
Did You Know The three largest seaports in Vietnam are in Hai Phong (North), Da Nang (Central), and Saigon (South). In addition, Vietnam has an extensive railway network: the Kunming (China) – Hai Phong (Vietnam) is 855 km long and remains important for cargo transportation. ...
Why did the Bolsheviks come to power? Why is Russian Revolution important? Why did the peasants revolt in Russia? Why did the United States not collapse (like the USSR) during the Cold War? Why did the Soviet Union join the Allies?
Why was the Thirty Years' War fought? Why did France join WW1? Why did France join WW2? Why did the French Wars of Religion start? Why did France give up North America in the Seven Years' War? Why didn't the Allies invade before the Battle of France?
I’m really not that afraid of a wider war, largely because the U.S. has warned other nations (aka Lebanon) not to get involved, for they’ll face some serious weapons if they do. But Israel is managing to take out Hamas higher-ups: ...
MonoMassMedia (MMM) were conditioning Americans to accept the Vietnam War for an utterly indefinite period of time. So we did a caper called The War Is Over so people could at least imagine such a possibility. We dashed exultantly up Fifth Avenue, disrupting traffic. I can't remember ...
As they struggled to get better protected platforms, they ADAPTED and changed tactics in the meantime. They did not believe their own "spin" and sat on their asses like today's Rumsfeld DoD does. Our pilots were instructed by smart warfighter like General Chennault in China or realized ...
The U.S. bombing of Laos (1964-1973) was part of a covert attempt by the CIA to wrest power from the communist Pathet Lao, a group allied with North Vietnam and the Soviet Union during the Vietnam War. The officially neutral country became a battleground in the Cold War between the...
the student protesters on college campuses. I personally was in grad school in 1970 and during the protests against the war in Vietnam we students were never afraid of the campus police or the local jurisdiction police attacking us.In fact I can't remember them be...
The act also kept employers from forcing employees to sign an agreement to not join a union upon penalty of being fired. [Pictured: United States Congressman George W. Norris and New York City Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia.] 1933: 21st Amendment: repeal of Prohibition Everett Historical // ...