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...
Senator Gaylord Nelson advocated for Earth Day and called on "students to fight for environmental causes and oppose environmental degradation with the same energy that they displayed in opposing the Vietnam War," states the libr...
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.” ...
Decades after the Vietnam War, the question haunts many men ofthe baby-boom generation,...Knickerbocker, Brad
Labor unions were restrained by legal and judicial barriers from certain activities and could be taken to court for striking, boycotting, picketing, and the like. The act also kept employers from forcing employees to sign an agreement to not join a union upon penalty of being fired. [Pictured...
The problem with the United States is that we almost never engage in a just war. In the last 200 years, we have been involved in only three just wars - our war against the Barbary pirates, the War of 1812, and Vietnam, which began as a war to combat communism, but quickly descended...
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 // ...
That made headlines, yet the protesters’ chants, including “Down with the USA” and the “Al-Qassam are on their way,” a reference to Hamas’s miliary wing, received no coverage. Neither did their physical threats to attendees outside, a common tactic. Also ignored ar...
I finally did what I should have done a long time ago. I’ve moved the blog into my own host and added domain. Now the site can be reached under the adress: www.pcgamingfan.com It turns out I picked a really good time to do it, because not only was my original host pretty much...
Harris also believes that the reluctance is the result of years of political mistrust that began with the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy, the resignation of Richard Nixon, and the loss of the Vietnam War. Now at the end of the Trump Administration, the U.S. seems to be slipping ...