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A Guerra do Vietnã ( português brasileiro) ou Guerra do Vietname ( português europeu), (em Vietnamita: Chiến tranh Việt Nam; em inglês: Vietnam War ), também conhecida como Segunda Guerra da Indochina, [ 59] chamada no Vietnã de Guerra de Resistência contra a América (em vietnamita: Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) ou simplesmente ...
37 killed. 187 injured. New Zealand's involvement in the Vietnam War was highly controversial, sparking widespread protest at home from anti-Vietnam War movements modelled on their American counterparts. This conflict was also the first in which New Zealand did not fight alongside the United Kingdom, instead following the loyalties of the ANZUS ...
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June 1. The Vietnam Veterans Against the War is formed. Veteran Jan Barry Crumb participated in a protest on April 15 called the "Fifth Avenue Peace Parade" in New York City. On May 30, Crumb and ten like-minded men attended a peace demonstration in Washington, D.C.
China claimed that its military and economic aid to North Vietnam and the Viet Cong totaled $20 billion (approx. $160 billion adjusted for inflation in 2022) during the Vietnam War. Included in that aid were donations of 5 million tons of food to North Vietnam (equivalent to North Vietnamese food production in a single year), accounting for 10 ...
LT. W. Leslie Bowles — Australian-born sculptor, served with British forces, including Tank Corps. Recruited to work on Australian War Memorial. LT. Wallace Anderson — fought with First AIF, then attached to Australian War Records Section, London, in 1918. All three worked on dioramas for which Louis McCubbin painted the backdrops.
Kate Webb (24 March 1943 – 13 May 2007) was a New Zealand -born Australian war correspondent for UPI and Agence France-Presse. She earned a reputation for dogged and fearless reporting throughout the Vietnam War, and at one point she was held prisoner for weeks by North Vietnamese troops. After the war, she continued to report from global ...
