With Australia allied to America, it began sending in conscripts (young men forced to join the armed services) and thousands of troops to Saigon to assist the U.S.A. ... It was on the 27th of December 1972, the newly elected Labor government in Australia stopped all Australian involvement in the war. ...
By December 31st, 1962, 11,300 U.S. military personnel were in Vietnam; South Vietnam Armed Forces strength was at 243,000 troops. ... B-57 bombers were destroyed, and five American service personnel were killed. ... Also, at a memorial service held at Jacksonville University, 2 students were shot and killed as well as 11 wounded, made by National Guardsmen. ... Many health risks were involved, including the length and time of service, if they were exposed to Agent Orange, and many veterans had infectious diseases, along with many suffering drug addictions. ...
Gina Ferraro History 137 THE VIET NAM WAR REPRESENTED THE POWER OF AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT TO WAGE WAR WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF CONGRESS? I agree that the Viet Nam War represented the power of an American president to wage war without the consent of congress. Below I have noted support for my a...
All forms of currency and trade were abolished and there was no postal or telephone service, this meant that any families or friends that were drafted were unlikely to be seen again. ... On December 25, 1978, "Hanoi launched a full-scale offensive against Cambodia" . ...
But in Washington on December 18th, General Earle G. ... In Saigon, on December 20th, General William C. ... Two days prior to the Tet, agents of the South Vietnamese Military Service arrested eleven Vietcong leaders that were caught holding a secret meeting. ...
By December, they had control of Vietnam to the 16th parallel. ... In the south, emperor Bao Dai who, after collaboration with the Japanese to 1945 and a brief period as "adviser" to Ho Chi Minh's government in Hanoi before fleeing the country in 1946, had been installed as a French puppet on his return in 1949, sought the services of Ngo Dinh Diem as premier. ...
Vietnamese education was based on the Confucian concept of the civil service examination system. ... Officials were not chosen exclusively from the landed aristocracy, as in much of the rest of the world, but through a series of civil service examinations that tested the candidate's knowledge of Confucian political, social and moral principles. ...
