With the northern half of the country under their control, the Politburo ordered General Dung to launch the final offensive against Saigon. The operational plan for the Ho Chi Minh Campaign called for ...
Nixon Doctrine / VietnamizationPropaganda leaflet urging the defection of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese to the side of the Republic of VietnamSevere communist losses during the Tet Offensive allowed ...
Between 1954 and 1957 there was large scale random dissidence in the countryside which the Di?m government managed to successfully quell. In early 1957 South Vietnam had its first peace in over a dec ...
Various names have been applied to the conflict. Vietnam War is the most commonly used name in English. It has also been called the Second Indochina War and the Vietnam Conflict.As there have been sev ...
In the United Kingdom, colour channels were now available; three stations had begun broadcasting in colour between 1967 and 1969. However, many viewers continued to watch black-and-white television se ...
The role of women in society was profoundly altered with growing feminism across the world and with the presence and rise of a significant number of women as heads of state outside of monarchies and h ...
Developing nations that were rich in oil experienced economic growth; others, not so endowed, saw the economic strain of oil price hikes lead to economic decline, particularly in Africa where a number ...
Main article: List of wars 1945–1989 § 1970–1979The most notable wars and/or other conflicts of the decade include:The Cold War (1947–1991)The Vietnam War came to a close in 1975 with the fall of ...
In 1960, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's government decided to permit all Status Indians to vote in federal elections. Since 1950, Status Indians had been allowed vote on the condition that they gav ...
Main articles: SALT I and DétenteIn 1972-1973, the superpowers sought each other's help. In February 1972, Nixon made a historic visit to Communist China. Relations with that country had been largely ...
The postwar suburbanization boom had left America's urban areas neglected, as jobs, money, and businesses gradually moved out of them. Many established industries such as garment manufacturing and hou ...
Starting in 1964, the antiwar movement began. Some opposed the war on moral grounds, rooting for the peasant Vietnamese against the modernizing capitalistic Americans. Opposition was centered among th ...
The climax of liberalism came in the mid-1960s with the success of President Lyndon B. Johnson (1963–69) in securing congressional passage of his Great Society programs, including civil rights, the e ...
Graduates of secondary schools in Hawaii often enter directly into the work force. Some attend colleges and universities on the mainland or other countries, and the rest attend an institution of highe ...
The Hawaiian language has about 2000 native speakers, less than 0.1% of the total population. According to the United States Census, there were over 24,000 total speakers of the language in Hawaii in ...
