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1945 to the Present
No event proved more important to the course of modern American history than World War II. The war cast America onto the world stage as a...
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The Sixties
Forty years after it ended, the 1960s remains the most consequential and controversial decade of the...
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The Seventies
Long overshadowed by the tumultuous 1960s and the transformative 1980s, the 1970s has finally been recognized as an era in its own right. And it is more than Watergate, big hair, and...
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The Consequences of Defeat in Vietnam
As historians of the Vietnam War know all too well, the amount of documentation about the conflict available in US archives—to say nothing of foreign repositories—can be overwhelming. To master even a small slice of this material is a herculean...
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The Vietnam War and the My Lai Massacre
The murder of more than 400 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai and My Khe by US soldiers on March 16, 1968, stands as one of the darkest days in the nation’s military history. It left an indelible stain on America’s record in Vietnam, the nation’s longest, least popular, and most...
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American troops in Vietnam
The first American combat troops entered South Vietnam.
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Geneva Agreement
The Geneva Agreement ended fighting between the French and the Viet Minh in Indochina. To American disapproval, the truce divided Vietnam along the 17th parallel into the Communist North and the anti-Communist South.
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
With the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Congress authorized the United States to “take all necessary measures to repel” attacks on American forces in Vietnam.
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My Lai massacre
In the South Vietnam village of My Lai, American infantrymen murdered more than five hundred men, women, and children. The atrocities at My Lai came to light in the American media in early 1969, stunning the public and helping to turn national opinion against the war.