Vietnam War
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About Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was an undeclared war in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
Henry Kissinger's Cambodia legacy of bombs and chaos
... During the Vietnam War, Kissinger and then-President Richard Nixon ordered clandestine bombing raids on neutral Cambodia, in an effort to flush out Viet Cong forces in the east of country...
Henry Kissinger: China mourns 'a most valued old friend'
... The Vietnam War was still raging - Mr Kissinger has both been lauded for crafting a peace deal, and also denounced for not ending the war earlier...
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger dies aged 100
... As secretary of state during the Nixon administration - and later under President Gerald Ford - Mr Kissinger led diplomatic efforts towards China, helped negotiate an end to the 1973 Yom Kippur War between Israel and its neighbours and was instrumental in the Paris Peace Accords that ended the Vietnam War...
Biden facing growing internal dissent over Israel's Gaza campaign
... " Several internal memos have been sent to Secretary of State Antony Blinken through a channel, established after the Vietnam War, which allows employees to register disapproval of policy...
The US is quietly arming Taiwan to the teeth
... So they are stuck in the Vietnam War-era of US military doctrine, " Dr Lai says...
US actress Piper Laurie, star of The Hustler and Carrie, dies at 91
... She later stepped away from the profession on what became a 15-year-break and focussed her attentions on the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War...
James Nachtwey: The last of the great photojournalists
... Now 75 years old, Mr Nachtwey just missed being part of the Vietnam War generation of photojournalists, when the profession reached the peak of its influence...
Six Triple Eight: The battalion of black women erased from history
... Mr Matthews was deployed to fight during the Vietnam War and he served in the military for 24 years as a second lieutenant...
Vietnam War Photos
