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Oct 29, 2009 · By 1972, when Republican President Richard M. Nixon was running for reelection, the United States was embroiled in the Vietnam War, and the country was deeply divided. Watergate Scandal
Jan 4, 2010 · During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet ...
Jul 3, 2019 · These missions were accomplished through Operations Babylift, New Life, and Frequent Wind in the weeks and days before the city fell. Advancing quickly, North Vietnamese troops finally captured Saigon on April 30, 1975. South Vietnam surrendered the same day. After thirty years of conflict, Ho Chi Minh’s vision of a united, communist Vietnam ...
Sep 11, 2017 · March 30 – Oct. 22, 1972: The Easter Offensive invasion by North Vietnamese forces is successfully repelled by South Vietnamese. Jan. 27, 1973: Cease-fire agreement is reached between U.S. and ...
3 days ago · Summarize This Article. Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. The Cold War was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons. The term was first used by the English writer George Orwell ...
Oct 29, 2009 · Tet Offensive Begins. On the early morning of January 30, 1968, Viet Cong forces attacked 13 cities in central South Vietnam, just as many families began their observances of the lunar new year ...
Oct 27, 2009 · Soldiers stationed in Vietnam during the war attended a memorial service as well on April 8, 1968. The chaplain eulogized King as "America's voice for the wisdom of non-violence."
