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Looking Back on the Vietnam War: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives (Rutgers University Press, 2016). xviii, 204 pp. Phillip Davidson. 1988. Vietnam at War: The History 1946–1975; Daniel Ellsberg. 2002. Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. New York: Viking Press. Bob Fink. 1981 Vietnam, A View from the Walls. Detroit ...
This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. (November 2024) Vietnam War Part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War in Asia Clockwise from top left: US Huey helicopters inserting South Vietnamese ARVN troops, 1970 North Vietnamese PAVN ...
A Vietnam War veteran throwing his medal at the US Capitol An anti-Vietnam War protest in Washington D.C., on April 24, 1971 A rally in support of the Vietnamese people at the Moskvitch factory in 1973. April 23 – Vietnam veterans threw away over 700 medals on the West Steps of the Capitol building. The next day, anti-war organizers claimed ...
Geoffrey Wawro was invited to speak at LSU Shreveport about his newest book, The Vietnam War: A Military History. “On any given day there were 50 to 70,000 troops in combat. Those guys had a ...
The first U.S. prisoners of war were released by North Vietnam on February 11, and all U.S. military personnel were to leave South Vietnam by March 29. As an inducement for Thieu's government to sign the agreement, Nixon had promised that the U.S. would provide financial and limited military support (in the form of air strikes) so that the ...
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This is a timeline of Vietnamese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Vietnam and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Vietnam. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Prehistory ...
North and South Vietnam therefore remained divided until the Vietnam War ended with the Fall of Saigon in 1975. After 1976, the newly reunified Vietnam faced many difficulties including internal repression and isolation from the international community due to the Cold War, Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and an American economic embargo. [1]