... in place to attack the LZ. B-Company had moved through the jungle and contact was made with the NVA forces. B-Company was now cut-off from the rest off the 2nd platoon. At the LZ A-Company has now been inserted to help B-Company. As A-Company approached B-Companies position they saw the NVA moving around to flank B-Companies position, so they crossed ... .org/vv98/other/010031.htm, 2001.). The evening came and A-B Companies were ordered to pull back to the LZ. C-D Companies were still fighting with two of the NVA companies. The 2nd platoon was still cut-off from A-Company; they stayed in...

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... came out it was widely viewed as anti-American. Nonetheless it quickly made its way to the top of the bestseller list. The cover of an original, late 1950 paperback edition of the book states that although "many Americans will not agree with this book . . . all of us ought to read it because it is what a very large part of the ... ...

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... return of U.S. prisoners of war, and a cease-fire ("Vietnam War-). In April 1975, North Vietnamese troops and tanks converged on Saigon, and the war was over ("Vietnam War-). On July 2nd 1976, North and South Vietnam were officially united as a single communist state. It had cost as estimated 2 million lives and the injury or disablement of many millions of others ("War ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... civilians. Following the surrender of Japan to the Allies in August 1945, Vietminh guerrillas seized the capital city of Hanoi and forced the abdication of Emperor Bao Dai. On September 2nd they declared Vietnam to be independent and announced the creation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, commonly called North Vietnam, with Ho Chi Minh as president. It was further agreed ... ...

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... wiped out an entire hamlet called My Lai, killing 500 unarmed civilians, mostly women and children (Dougan and Weiss, 267). The Tet-Offensive finally came to an end. The ARVN's 2nd battalion secured the main flagpole at the Midday Gate of the Imperial Palace. At 5:00am, they hauled down the NLF flag that ran up the yellow and red standard of ... ...

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... demanding basic freedoms. These points evidently reflected US and French values, "equal rights for Vietnamese and French in Indo-China" and "freedom of press and opinion" being just a selection. On 2nd of September 1945, in Hanoi, Ho spoke to a crowd of approximately 100,000 people on his nationalist aspirations. Throughout his address, Ho stressed the theme of freedom. However, it also ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate