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Vietnam was divided between a comunist party and a democatic party.
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Discussions on the Vietnam issue started at the conference just as France suffered its worst military defeat of the war, when Vietnamese forces captured the French base at Dien Bien Phu.
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American student organization that flourished in the mid-to-late 1960s and was known for its activism against the Vietnam War.
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution allowed the United States to engaging more directly in the Vietnam War.
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Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign.
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100,000 protesters gathered at the Lincoln Memorial, around 30,000 of them marched on the Pentagon later that night. After a brutal confrontation with the soldiers and U.S. Marshals protecting the building, hundreds of demonstrators were arrested. https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-protests
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The Mỹ Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass murder of unarmed Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops in South Vietnam.
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The protest took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
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The Republican nominee, Richard Nixon, defeated the Democratic nominee, Hubert Humphrey.
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The Woodstock Music & Art Fair was a music festival in the United States in 1969 which attracted an audience of more than 400,000.
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366 blue plastic capsules containing birthdays would be chosen in the first Vietnam draft lottery.
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The Cambodian Campaign was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia during by the United States and the Republic of Vietnam.
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The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
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It became a unified country once more in 1975 when the armed forces of the Communist north seized the south.
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The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam.
