... country? No one would ever take us seriously again. On August 2, 1964 the USS Maddox was off the coast of North Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin, when it was fired upon by some North Vietnam gunboats. There is a large dispute on whether there was a second attack or not by the North Vietnamese. The United States government said there was and the North Vietnamese said there was not. Surprisingly, the North Vietnamese version does seem more creditable ... the war in Vietnam. And in January 1973, a cease-fire was negotiated. On January 25th, 1973, The Paris Peace Accords were signed ending the...

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In 1965, Johnson sent the first US combat troops into Vietnam and they left in 1973, accomplishing nothing. The United States was unable to defeat communism in South-East Asia between those years because of their ineptitude, and the superior tactics of the Viet Cong. There were many problems that the Americans faced. Firstly, they didn't get along with the Vietnamese people. The Americans disliked the very people that they were supposedly helping, all people were treated the ... lack of discipline. US military tactics were also incompetent. One of the most prominent approaches was Operation Ro...

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... State University students following the steps of thousands of students all over the country protested against the war. The protesters left the dormitory town and went down the streets of the City of Kent in the morning on May 2. The City Mayor Leroy Satrom asked Governor James Rhodes to send the National Guard forces to school to suppress the protest after an anonymous student had burned the ROTC building. The confrontation between students and the force had lasted for ... of Vietnam or intervening in the civil war of another country. Other protesters believed that the war purposes were...

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