Vietnam War
The United States will never do enough to compensate Vietnam for the horrible crimes it committed against that country. Those crimes didn't suddenly end in 1973 or 1975. Rather, the.
On January 11, 1968, around 1,000 workers in Saigon walked off the job, protesting the unfair treatment they faced from South Vietnamese government and demonstrating the lack of commitment to.
I haven't seen the Ken Burns Vietnam series yet and given my indifference to Burns, not to mention my outright hostility to his anti-intellectual and anti-scholar claims that professional historians.
I know it's fun to read about the intrigues of politics, with its charismatic figures and seemingly missed opportunities, but in terms of South Vietnam and its 1967 battle between.
This is the grave of Robert McNamara. This is a man who died without any blood on his hands at all. In fact, it's hard to think of an American.
When teaching about postwar America, I always tell my students that just about anything that happened in this nation during the Cold War has its roots in Cold War politics.
What happens if LBJ decides to run for reelection in 1968?
On May 8, 1970, 200 unionized construction workers attacked an anti-war march in the wake of the Kent State shooting a few days before. The so-called Hard Hat Riot placed.