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1 day ago · The Tet Offensive was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War.The Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) launched a surprise attack on January 30, 1968 against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), the United States Armed Forces and their allies.
- Phase 1: January 20 – March 20, 1968, (1 month and 4 weeks), Phase 2: May 5 – June 15, 1968, (1 month, 1 week and 3 days), Phase 3: August 9 – September 23, 1968, (1 month and 2 weeks)
- U.S. and South Vietnam tactical victory, North Vietnam and Viet Cong political and strategic victory (see aftermath for details and long-term consequences)
16 hours ago · — “After World War II, a defeated and chastened Japan adopted a policy of pacifism — it avoided building significant armed capability, limited its defence expenditure, and refused to participate in military conflicts anywhere.” — “Japan’s pacifism was compensated by its bilateral military alliance with the United States.
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1 day ago · The Mughal Empire was the richest in the world in 1700, and the East India Company tried to strip it bare for a century thereafter. Dalrymple calls it "the single largest transfer of wealth until the Nazis." What was in the 17th century the production capital of the world for textiles was forced to become a market for British made textiles ...
- 31 December 1600; 422 years ago
4 hours ago · Kievan Rus' c. 880–1240 Rurikid princely emblems depicted on coins: Left: Vladimir the Great (10–11th century) Right: Yaroslav the Wise (11th century) A map of Kievan Rus' after the death of Yaroslav I in 1054 Capital Kiev (882–1240) Common languages Old East Slavic Old Church Slavonic (literary) Old Norse Finnic languages Religion Slavic paganism (native faith of Slavs) Reformed state ...
4 hours ago · Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Alexis Taylor, paid a courtesy call on President Ranil Wickremesinghe toda
4 hours ago · Arizona was the site of German prisoner of war camps during World War II and Japanese American internment camps. Because of wartime fears of a Japanese invasion of the U.S. West Coast (which in fact materialized in the Aleutian Islands Campaign in June 1942), from 1942 to 1945, persons of Japanese descent were forced to reside in internment ...
