The Vietnam War was not the United States' bloodiest or ... the war and voiced his own opposition to the conflict. In January 1968, during the Vietnamese New Year, Tet, the North Vietnamese ...
While the war established Vietnam as a potent military power in Southeast Asia, the massive scale of the armed conflict ...
The presidential election of 1968 was one of the most chaotic in ... But growing opposition to the war in Vietnam, unrest on college campuses, and urban rioting, made him vulnerable.
In 1968, with mounting criticism of the Vietnam War at home and abroad, President Johnson announced that he would stop the bombing of North Vietnam and that he would not run for re-election the ...
Key fact Many historians see the Tet Offensive as a turning point in America’s mission in Vietnam ... 1968. He had often voiced concern about the rising number of American casualties of the War.
Johnson (LBJ) for turning the Vietnam War from a guerrilla war to one of conventional warfare. Yet we still could have won the war in 1968! Contrary to the claims of the likes of Walter Cronkite ...
and "The Green Berets" (1968), starring John Wayne. Additionally, he discusses the tragedies and aftermath of the Vietnam War, connecting the Mỹ Lai massacre to the civilian deaths in "Born on ...
The CIA has released documents showing it monitored Latino activists who had supported late civil rights icon Martin Luther ...
A long-time advocate for military women, Diane Carlson Evans received one of the nation’s highest civilian honors during ...
To the world, he was an Army Green Beret legend who was shot and wounded 37 times in a 1968 Vietnam War battle where he saved ...