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In the 1960s, deep cultural changes were altering the role of women in American society. More females than ever were entering the paid workforce, and this increased the dissatisfaction among women regarding huge gender disparities in pay and advancement and sexual harassment at the workplace. One of the most profound changes was happening in the bedroom. By the end of the Sixties, more than 80 percent of wives of childbearing age were using contraception after the federal government in 1960 approved a birth control pill. This freed many women from unwanted pregnancy and gave them many more choices, and freedom, in their personal lives.

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The Vietnam War

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Beatles is an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960

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Young people near the Woodstock music festival in August 1969

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Capitals of the United States and Colonies of America

When President John F. Kennedy sent investigators to Indochina in 1961 to assess the condition of South Vietnam and to determine what other assistance would be required form the United States there was little doubt that the U.S. would need to send armed troops. The December 1961, White Papers not only urged, but demanded that in order to crush the NLF, America would have to increase not only her technical and economic assistance, but she would also need to send American advisors.
Although President Kennedy did not approve the request for the deployment of ground troops he did authorize the sending of more machinery and of military advisors. This was to prove futile however, for by 1963 South Vietnam was so near collapse it was apparent that a more aggressive action would be required.

Following President Kennedy's assassination in November of 1963, President Lyndon Baines Johnson was debating the issuance of a more aggressive approach in order to stabilize the south. The expansion of the U.S. involvement in South Vietnam became justified when on August 2, 1964, the Communist attacked an U.S. Navy vessel, patrolling in the Gulf of Tonkin.

Because the Communist North believed that the Americans had lacked any defined strategy, they had decided to employ tactics, which would make the war impossible for the Americans to win and to create unfavorable conditions for a political victory.

By 1968 the situation had gone from worse to critical after the communist had launched coordinated attacks against major southern cities. The Tet Offensive so disgraced President Lyndon Johnson that in January of 1968 he announced that he would not seek re-election as President.

In the Spring of 1968, President Johnson held secret peace negotiations in France in hopes of ending The U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia and to put an end to this highly aggressive and costly war. This did little to redeem the prior actions and decisions of the Democratic Party and in November of 1968, Republican Richard M. Nixon was elected as our 37th president.

In early 1975, North Vietnam launched a full- scale attack against South Vietnam. Their cry went out for U.S. intervention but the U.S. denied their request and soon panic erupted as the advancing Communist troops marched into Saigon on April 30 1975 and seized the presidential palace.

Vietnam War

Part of the Cold War

Clockwise, from top left: U.S. Marines battle in Hamo village during the Tet Offensive, extraction of troops after an airmobile assault, a burning Viet Cong base camp in Mỹ Tho, Vietnamese civilians killed by US troops during the My Lai Massacre

Date

November 1, 1955- April 30, 1975(19 years, 170 days)

Location

South Vietnam, North Vietnam,Cambodia, Laos

Result

North Vietnamese victory

Withdrawal of American forces from Indochina

Dissolution of South Vietnam

Communist governments take power in Cambodia and Laos

Territorial
changes

Unification of North and South Vietnam under North Vietnamese rule.

Belligerents

Anti-Communist forces:

Communist forces:

Commanders and leaders

Ngô Đình Diệm
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ
Cao Văn Viên
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
William Westmoreland
Creighton Abrams
... and others

Hồ Chí Minh
Lê Duẩn
Võ Nguyên Giáp
Văn Tiến Dũng
Trần Văn Trà
Nguyễn Văn Linh
... and others

Strength

~1,830,000 (1968)
South Vietnam: 850,000
United States: 536,100
Free World Forces: 65,000
South Korea: 312,853,
Australia: 49,968 (1962-1973)
Thailand, Philippines: 10,450
New Zealand: 3,890 (1964-1973)

~520,000 (1968)
North Vietnam: ~340,000
PRC: 170,000 (1969)
Soviet Union: 3,000
North Korea: 300

Casualties and losses

South Vietnam
220,357 dead;1,170,000 wounded
United States
58,159 dead;1,719 missing; 303,635 wounded
South Korea
5,099 dead; 10,962 wounded; 4 missing

Australia

520 dead; 2,400*wounded

New Zealand

Thailand

1,351 dead

Kingdom of Laos

30,000 killed, wounded unknown

Total dead: 315,384 Total wounded: ~1,490,000+

North Vietnam & NLF
1,176,000 dead/missing;
600,000+ wounded
P.R. China
1,446 dead; 4,200 wounded
Soviet Union
16 dead

Total dead: ~1,177,462 Total wounded: ~604,200+

Vietnamese civilian dead (both sides): ~2,000,000
Cambodian civilian dead: 700,000-1,000,000*
Laotian civilian dead: ~50,000*
Total civilian dead: ~2,750,000 - 3,050,000

*= approximations, see Casualties below

For more information on casualties see Vietnam War casualties

The Congressional Evolution of the United States of America

Continental Congress of the United Colonies Presidents

Sept. 5, 1774 to July 1, 1776

Commander-in-Chief United Colonies & States of America

George Washington: June 15, 1775 - December 23, 1783

Continental Congress of the United States Presidents
July 2, 1776 to February 28, 1781

Presidents of the United States in Congress Assembled
March 1, 1781 to March 3, 1789

Presidents of the United States of America

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United Colonies and States First Ladies

Capitals of the United Colonies and States of America

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