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3 days ago · Charlie Company. A map of North and South Vietnam during the Vietnam War showing major air bases and the communists' supply routes, including the Ho Chi Minh Trail. My Lai, a subdivision of Son My village, was located in the province of Quang Ngai, roughly 7 miles (11 km) northeast of Quang Ngai city. The area had been dubbed “Pinkville” by ...
6 days ago · The history of the United States from 1945 to 1964 was a time of high economic growth and general prosperity. It was also a time of confrontation as the capitalist United States and its allies politically opposed the Soviet Union and other communist states; the Cold War had begun. African Americans united and organized, and a triumph of the ...
May 3, 2024 · Republican Richard Nixon won election as president of the United States in 1968 partly as a result of his pledge to end the Vietnam War. Lack of success in conducting the war—which had become a quagmire for U.S. forces, with mounting casualties reported on the nightly TV news with the regularity of sports scores—had forced Nixon’s predecessor, Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson, to opt not to ...
5 days ago · The 1968 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 5, 1968. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1968 United States presidential election. Voters chose 43 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president . New York was won by incumbent Democratic vice ...
May 8, 2024 · Richard Nixon (born January 9, 1913, Yorba Linda, California, U.S.—died April 22, 1994, New York, New York) was the 37th president of the United States (1969–74), who, faced with almost certain impeachment for his role in the Watergate scandal, became the first American president to resign from office.
May 20, 2024 · v. t. e. The 1968 United States presidential election in Georgia was held on November 5, 1968. American Independent Party candidate George Wallace received the most votes, and won all twelve of the state's electoral college votes. [2] Wallace, who ran a campaign based upon support for segregation, won all but seventeen of the state's 159 counties.
2 days ago · From 1941 to 1950, 1,035,000 people immigrated to the U.S., including 226,000 from Germany, 139,000 from the United Kingdom, 171,000 from Canada, 60,000 from Mexico, and 57,000 from Italy. [76] The Displaced Persons Act of 1948 finally allowed the displaced people of World War II to start immigrating. [77]
