... The 1960's were widely known as the decade of peace and love, not because the world had become a utopia but, in my opinion, because of the heavy use of the popular hallucinogenic drugs by the American youth. In reality minorities were struggling to gain freedom from segregation and thousands of American soldiers and Vietnamese civilians were being killed in the highly disputed war in ... shots to the chest. On March 12, 1965, U.S. Highway 80 was blocked by sixty state troopers who stood in a wall three deep 400 yards past the Edmund Pettus Bridge, which crosses the Alabama river. When bl...

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... -world country in South-East Asia was the location where the United States failed, for the first time in its history, to achieve its stated war aims. The goal was to preserve a separate, independent, non-communist government in South Vietnam, but after April 1975, the communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) ruled the entire nation. The a thousand year old domination of Vietnam by China influenced not only the ... Viet Minh troops entered Hanoi on the 17th of August. Bao Dai, the puppet emperor of the Japanese, abdicated and asked the Viet Minh to form a government in Cochinchina....

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