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Between 2003 and 2006, the automobile sales tax increased from 5% to 50%, slowing down car sales. [3] The Vietnamese car market is relatively small, albeit the fastest growing in Southeast Asia. [4] Most automobile manufacturers in Vietnam are members of the (non-governmental) Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers' Association (VAMA). [5]
In 1984, the Vietnam Women's Memorial Project was founded by Diane Carlson Evans, leading to the creation of the Vietnam Women's Memorial in Washington D.C. in 1993. [112] [113] The Vietnam Women's Memorial is in Constitution Gardens, a park on the National Mall. [114] [115] It honors the American women who served in the Vietnam War. [116]
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:People of the Vietnam War. It includes People of the Vietnam War that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
The Vietnam Women's Memorial is a memorial dedicated to the nurses and women of the United States who served in the Vietnam War.It depicts three uniformed women with a wounded male soldier to symbolize the support and caregiving roles that women played in the war as nurses and other specialists.
Women in the Vietnam War (1 C, 19 P) Pages in category "Women in war in Vietnam" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
The reunification of North and South Vietnam after the Vietnam War, in 1976, also allowed women to take on leadership roles in politics. [58] One author said that Vietnam during the 1980s was "a place where, after exhausting work and furious struggle, women can be confident that they travel the path which will some day arrive at their liberation."
Women began finding work when World War I began in 1914; they had to take the jobs of men who had gone to war. A wide range of jobs needed filling. Automotive machines were in large production around this time to supply the United States and other countries with vehicles for war.
The Girl in the Picture: The Kim Phúc Story, the Photograph and the Vietnam War, by Denise Chong, is a 1999 biographical and historical book tracing the life story of Phúc. Chong's historical coverage emphasizes the life, especially the school and family life, of Phúc from before the attack, through convalescence, and into the present time.