THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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America landed on the moon
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JFK is elected president & assassinated
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Vietnam War ends
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Great Society Programs are launched
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Detailed explanation-1: -Having rebuilt their forces and upgraded their logistics system, North Vietnamese forces triggered a major offensive in the Central Highlands in March 1975. On April 30, 1975, NVA tanks rolled through the gate of the Presidential Palace in Saigon, effectively ending the war.
Detailed explanation-2: -Five American soldiers were killed in Vietnam during 1960. South Vietnamese armed forces numbered 146, 000 regulars and 97, 000 militia. They suffered 2, 223 killed in action. The number of VC combatants, counting both full-time and part-time guerrillas, was estimated at 15, 000.
Detailed explanation-3: -Vietnam War, (1954–75), a protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, known as the Viet Cong, against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.
Detailed explanation-4: -March 29, 1973: Two months after the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement, the last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam as Hanoi frees many of the remaining American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam. America’s direct eight-year intervention in the Vietnam War was at an end.