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the forces of the South, without American combat support, could not hold off the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong. The fighting in Vietnam finally ended with the fall of Saigon in 1975.
Decades after the Vietnam War, the question haunts many men ofthe baby-boom generation,...Knickerbocker, Brad
One day, Minh was walking with a Vietnamese friend. The two men were going to a movie. Minh wanted to go to a restaurant first. Minh took his friend's hand. He pulled him toward the restaurant. People on the street stared at Minh. In Vietnam, friends often hold hands. Minh found...
Historically, Americans have occasionally renounced their citizenship for other reasons. For example, opposition to U.S. policy during the Vietnam War.15Certain acts can also cause an individual to lose U.S. citizenship without formally renouncing it. Under theInternal Revenue Codeand/or the Immigr...
Vietnam was the rise of the Khmer Rouge and slaughter of perhaps a million Cambodian citizens. Those citizens, like the Jews in Germany or the Armenians in Turkey, were unarmed and thus utterly and completely defenseless against police and paramilitary. An armed minority was able to kill ...
1967: North Vietnam ceasefire lasts most of Christmas Day The Vietnam War was raging by 1967. But on Christmas Day, a ceasefire held for most of the day, allowing troops stationed in the country a moment of respite from fighting for celebration. [Pictured: Soldiers on Christmas Day, on th...
The people in the North call Saigon Ho Chi Minh City, but people in the South still call it Saigon. Don’t forget that the Vietnam was largely a civil war, one in which far more South Vietnamese soldiers died fighting for freedom from the Communist North than Americans did. Also don’...
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 theSoviet Unionduring theVietnam War. The officially neutral country became a battleground in theCold Warbetween the United ...