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This was an American Emergency law signed by FDr. It increased federal power during WW2.
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Ngo Dinh Diem asked our President to send over additional troops.
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Ngo Dinh Diem, the leader of South Vietnam. was killed by a group of rebel forces.
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For about a year, LBJ and his advisers were deciding on whether or not to bomb North Vietnam. In '65, they finally decided and announced their decision.
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This was a large military campaign against the US, South Vietnam, and their allies.
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This massacre was part of the Vietnam war. It killed between 307 and 504 South Vietnam citizens.
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The US citizens, at first, thought the involvement was a good idea. However, that thought plummeted quickly and next to no one agreed.
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Johnson gave his own televised speech that he was not running for president again, America was shocked and excited, but they hated his guts.
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MLK was out on his balcony in Tennesse when a surprise visitor named James Earl Ray shot him and fled.
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After giving a speech, RFK watched into the hotel kitchen only to be shot by Sirhan Sirhan.
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This convention was held at the International Amphitheatre, located in Chicago. It lasted three days.
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Nixon beat Humphrey just barely. It was a very close margin.
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The selective service system put papers with specific birthdays on them, one for each day of the year. They reached a hand in and pulled out a date. Whoever was born at that date was then drafted for war,
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President Nixon withdrew 150,000 troops in South Vietnam in order to end US involvement in the vietnam war.
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The invasion of Cambodia was called the Combodian Campaign and included many military operations.
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Students at the Kent State college were demonstrating (protesting). One of the Ohio National guards was spooked and shot out into the crowd. Four died and nine university students wounded.
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81 to 10 voted to repeal the Tonkin Gulf resolution. Afterwards, the Tonkin Gulf incident occured, making President Johnson be allowed to do whatever he seemed right.
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The Pentagon papers were excerpts in the New York Times that explained the secret war the government had in store for the US.
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This was a major political scandal in result of the Domecratic National Committee headquarters break-in. Nixon tried to cover up the break-in, leaving conspiracies to rumor about and cause an investigation by congress.
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These fires almost created an endless chain of retaliations. Both sides of South Vietnam were surrounded by it, but the South Vietnamese were receiving help.
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The watergate scandal caused people to be uneasy of Nixon. Before he could be impeached, Nixon decide to resign from his position as president.
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This fall captured Saigon and South Vietnam. It ended the Vietnam War.
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This memorial is 3-acres long and filled with all the soldiers who died or fought during the vietnam war.
