James Ford Cairns was born in Carlton, then a working-class suburb of Melbourne, the son of a clerk. He grew up on a dairy farm north of Sunbury. His father went to the First World War as a lieutenant ...
Following the success of the November 1969 Moratorium in the United States, a series of citizen groups opposed to the war in Vietnam decided to band together to put on a Moratorium in Australia. Late ...
Seat Pre-1969 Swing Post-1969Party Member Margin Margin Member PartyAdelaide, SA Liberal Andrew Jones 2.8 14.3 11.3 Chris Hurford Labor Barton, NSW Liberal William Arthur 2.2 5.7 3.0 Len Reynolds ...
To evaluate Westmoreland's request and its possible impact on domestic politics, Johnson convened the "Clifford Group" on 28 February and tasked its members with a complete policy reassessment. Some o ...
Although Saigon was the focal point of the offensive, the communists did not seek a total takeover of the city. Rather, they had six primary targets to strike in the downtown area: the headquarters of ...
By the beginning of January 1968, the U.S had deployed 331,098 Army personnel and 78,013 Marines in nine divisions, an armoured cavalry regiment, and two separate brigades to South Vietnam. They were ...
Johnson, whose own ticket out of poverty was a public education in Texas, fervently believed that education was a cure for ignorance and poverty, and was an essential component of the American dream, ...
Lyndon Baines Johnson was born August 27, 1908 in Stonewall, Texas, in a small farmhouse on the Pedernales River, the oldest of five children. His parents, Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr. (1877–1937) and Re ...
In 1964 compulsory National Service for 20-year-old males was introduced under the National Service Act (1964). The selection of conscripts was made by a sortition or lottery draw based on date of bir ...
In 1966, when the area was part of the then Phuoc Tuy Province it was the location of a prominent Australian military base in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The site was chosen by Lieutenant Ge ...
In March 1966 the Australian government decided to increase its commitment to the Vietnam War, announcing that the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (1 RAR) would be replaced at the end of its ...
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara created the Vietnam Study Task Force on June 17, 1967, for the purpose of writing an "encyclopedic history of the Vietnam War". McNamara claimed that he wanted to ...
Following the surrender of Saigon to North Vietnamese forces on 30 April 1975, the Viet Cong, or Provisional Revolutionary Government, established itself in Saigon as the government of South Vietnam. ...
Main article: Leaders of South Vietnam1946–47 Autonomous Republic of Cochinchina (Chính ph? C?ng hoà Nam K? t? tr?). The creation of this republic allowed France to evade a promise to recognis ...
In Australia, resistance to the war was at first very limited. Initially public opinion was strongly in support of government policy in Vietnam and when the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) ...
