Event: NATO Key Points – the countries of Western Europe and North America formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949, to protect themselves from the soviet military threat. -Members agreed that an attack on one country would be considered an attack of them all. Event: NORAD Key Points – the Soviet Union had built…
The 1968 Tet Offensive is described as one of the bloodiest military campaign of the Vietnam War; the North Communists launched against the South. The “general offensive and general uprising” of the north marked the sharp turn of the Vietnam War. Today there have been a great number of writings about this event. However, it…
In the novel The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien the author tells about his experiences in the Vietnam War by telling various war stories. The quote, “It has been said of war that it is a world where the past has a strong grip on the present, where machines seemed sometimes to have more…
Why was Vietnam a so heavily divided subject amongst the American People? Vietnam was the first publically accessible war to the American public. With the invention of the television and the constant media exposure, for the first time the horrors of war was a publically accessible domain. Due to this, a ‘generation gap’ was created,…