Why did the United States become involved in Vietnam? 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 conf...
essentially: ‘We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.’ Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war that was unsustainable for the regime, a conflict that bought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.” ...
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. Relocat...
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?
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...
Agent Orange is a herbicide and defoliant chemical used by the US Military during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971(it's been used in other places, but we most commonly know about it because of Vietnam).It contains dioxin which has caused a major health problem for people who were expos...
Robot Chicken creates a new Sesame Street character; The Mario Bros. spend all those gold coins they've collected;What we imagine Pinky and the Brain would do if they had a wild night on the town. Two Vietnamese guards try to break Rambo in our reimagining of this famous movie scene....
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Netflix's Enola Holmes introduced viewers to some whole new members of Sherlock's family — but why did Sherlock abandon his mother and sister? Intelligence clearly runs in the Holmes family tree. Sherlock Holmes proudly considers himself the world's greatest consulting detective, his brother ...
Why did Guatemala political elites help fruit companies? Bananas for dollars: In the wake of the Spanish American war in 1898, the United States had taken an interest in South and Central America. Primarily, the US was interested in agriculture including the vast crops of fruit that many of ...