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This is a timeline of Vietnamese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Vietnam and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Vietnam. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Prehistory ...
Soldiers served a one-year tour of duty. The average age of the U.S. military men who died in Vietnam was 22.8 years old. [59] The one-year tour of duty deprived units of experienced leadership. As one observer put it, "we were not in Vietnam for 10 years, but for one year 10 times." [60] [unreliable source?] As a result, training programs were ...
With a population of over 98 million, Vietnam is the 15th most populous country in the world. Vietnam was under Chinese control for a thousand years before becoming a nation-state in the 10th century.
Vietnam's parliament elected military general Luong Cuong as president in October 2024. He became Vietnam's fourth president in three years, following a period of rare political turmoil in the ...
Vietnam's ethnic mosaic results from the peopling process in which various peoples came and settled the territory, leading to the modern state of Vietnam by many stages, often separated by thousands of years over a duration of tens of thousands of years. Vietnam's entire history, thus, is an embroidery of polyethnicity. [11]
For the 25th anniversary of the “Hey Arnold!” pilot, show creator Craig Bartlett talked to NBC Asian America about the storyline surrounding Mr. Hyunh, a Vietnamese refugee.
Tension between Vietnam and China mounted together with China's rivalry with the Soviet Union and conflict erupted with Cambodia, China's ally. Vietnam was also subject to trade embargoes by the U.S. and its allies. [citation needed] The SRVN government implemented a Stalinist dictatorship of the proletariat in the South as they had done in the ...
A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam New York: Harcourt. Harry G. Summers. 1982. On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War. Presidio Press. ISBN 0-89141-563-7, ISBN 978-0-89141-563-3; Shelby Stanton. 1987. Vietnam: Order of Battle; Shelby Stanton. 1988. The Rise and Fall of an ...