https://padlet.com/kyle_cline1/2etkjaiz3f46 en-us 2017-04-11 16:34:30 UTC 2026-01-03 19:33:35 UTC hello@padlet.com kyle_cline1 https://padlet.com/kyle_cline1/2etkjaiz3f46/wish/165927315 The Viet Cong used inventive booby traps using sharpened bamboo sticks or crossbows triggered by tripwires (on the North Vietnamese-Viet Cong side).]]> 2017-04-11 16:36:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kyle_cline1/2etkjaiz3f46/wish/165927315 kyle_cline1 https://padlet.com/kyle_cline1/2etkjaiz3f46/wish/165927955 approximately 11,000 military women were stationed in Vietnam during the conflict. Nearly all of them were volunteers, and 90 percent served as military nurses, though women also worked as physicians, air traffic controllers, intelligence officers, clerks and other positions in the U.S. Women’s Army Corps, U.S. Navy, Air Force and Marines and the Army Medical Specialist Corps.]]> 2017-04-11 16:39:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kyle_cline1/2etkjaiz3f46/wish/165927955 kyle_cline1 https://padlet.com/kyle_cline1/2etkjaiz3f46/wish/166112063 U.S. President Richard Nixon (1913-94) introduced a new strategy called Vietnamization that was aimed at ending American involvement in the Vietnam War (1954-75) by transferring all military responsibilities to South Vietnam.]]> 2017-04-12 16:05:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kyle_cline1/2etkjaiz3f46/wish/166112063 kyle_cline1 https://padlet.com/kyle_cline1/2etkjaiz3f46/wish/166112343 In order to combat better-supplied American and South Vietnamese forces during the Vietnam War, Communist guerrilla troops known as Viet Cong (VC) dug tens of thousands of miles of tunnels, including an extensive network running underneath the Cu Chi district northwest of Saigon. Soldiers used these underground routes to house troops, transport communications and supplies, lay booby traps and mount surprise attacks, after which they could disappear underground to safety.]]> 2017-04-12 16:06:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kyle_cline1/2etkjaiz3f46/wish/166112343 kyle_cline1 https://padlet.com/kyle_cline1/2etkjaiz3f46/wish/166113633 as many as 2 million civilians on both sides and some 1.1 million North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters. The U.S. military has estimated that between 200,000 and 250,000 South Vietnamese soldiers died in the war.]]> 2017-04-12 16:13:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kyle_cline1/2etkjaiz3f46/wish/166113633 kyle_cline1 https://padlet.com/kyle_cline1/2etkjaiz3f46/wish/166114017 A cease-fire was signed in Paris, 1973. War broke out again in the region, but North Vietnam's victory in 1975 ended the longest war in which the U.S. had ever been involved.

]]> 2017-04-12 16:14:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kyle_cline1/2etkjaiz3f46/wish/166114017 kyle_cline1 https://padlet.com/kyle_cline1/2etkjaiz3f46/wish/166114379 At the end of the Vietnam War, the USS Midway crew pushed $10 million worth of helicopters into the sea so that a Cessna full of evacuees could land on the deck.]]> 2017-04-12 16:16:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kyle_cline1/2etkjaiz3f46/wish/166114379