In keeping with the times, much of anthropology became politicized through the Algerian War of Independence and opposition to the Vietnam War ; Marxism became an increasingly popular theoretical approach in the discipline.

Attempts to accuse anthropologists of complicity with the CIA and government intelligence activities during the Vietnam War years have turned up surprisingly little ( although anthropologist Hugo Nutini was active in the stillborn Project Camelot ).

Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, which contains hundreds of private letters written by Thompson over the years, contains a letter in which he uses A Modest Proposals satire technique against the Vietnam War.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: Easter Offensive – American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.

The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Duong Van Minh.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin incident – North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fire on the U. S. destroyers and.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: the U. S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.

* 1967 – Vietnam War: China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.

In the 1960s with the African American Civil Rights Movement and opposition to the Vietnam War, the song took on a political tone.

Collins connected it to the Vietnam War, to which she objected: " I didn't know what else to do about the war in Vietnam.

Although Collins used it as a catharsis for her opposition to the Vietnam War, two years after her rendition, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, senior Scottish regiment of the British Army, recorded an instrumental version featuring a bagpipe soloist accompanied by a pipe and drum band.

* 1970 – Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.

* 1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U. S. begins to evacuate U. S. citizens from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover.

* 1973 – Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: A coup d ' état replaces Duong Van Minh with General Nguyen Khanh as President of South Vietnam.

* 1966 – Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong.

* 1965 – Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins – United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.

* 1966 – Vietnam War: the Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phuoc Tuy province.

* 1971 – Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins.

From the mid-1960s, the anti-war movement's preoccupation with the Vietnam War tended to eclipse concern about nuclear weapons but CND continued to campaign against them.

From the 1940s through the Vietnam War, some notable gay servicemembers avoided discharges despite pre-screening efforts, and when personnel shortages occurred, homosexuals were allowed to serve.

Barbara Tuchman, in her book The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, offers a vivid narrative of Julius II's career.

From the late 1970s until the early 1990s, Vietnam was a member of the Comecon, and therefore was heavily dependent on trade with the Soviet Union and its allies.

From 2006 to 2010, Vietnam hoped to receive US $ 18 billion of FDI to support a targeted growth rate in excess of 7 %.

From 1993 through 2004, Vietnam received pledges of US $ 29 billion of official development assistance ( ODA ), of which about US $ 14 billion, or 49 %, has been disbursed.

From 2006 to 2010, Vietnam hopes to receive US $ 14 billion to US $ 15 billion of ODA.

* Index of all known Vietnam War Films with links to reviews and criticism From La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA

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From the early 21st century, farmed basa imported from Vietnam and hoki have become common in Australian fish and chip shops.

From slogans to mantras: social protest and religious conversion in the late Vietnam war era.

From February 1965 through mid-1966 he convened the NSC almost exclusively to discuss Vietnam, doing so irregularly and, following a flurry of meetings in February 1965, infrequently.

From 1958 until his death in 1986, he was the top decision-maker in Vietnam.

* The Forging of the American Empire: From the Revolution to Vietnam, a History of U. S. Imperialism by Sidney Lens ( 2003 ) ISBN 0-7453-2101-1.

* Christopher D. O ' Sullivan, Colin Powell: American Power and Intervention From Vietnam to Iraq, New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, ( 2009 )

* Pentagon papers: Telegram From the Ambassador in Vietnam ( Lodge ) to McGeorge Bundy on US Options With Respect to a Possible Coup, mentioning the term " plausible denial " Alternative link: Pentagon papers, Telegram 216, same cable

From his base, all of modern-day Laos and the Khorat Plateau as well as parts of Sipsongbanna ( ສ ິ ບສອງພ ັ ນນາ, ส ิ บสองพ ั นนา ), Sipsong Chu Tai ( ສ ິ ບສອງຈ ຸ ໃທ, ส ิ บสองจ ุ ไทย ), Xieng Tung ( ຊຽງຕ ຸ ງ, เซ ี ยงต ุ ง ), and Xieng Taeng ( ຊຽງແຕງ, เซ ี ยงแตรง ) and parts of northwestern Vietnam.

From 1941-5, Phetsarath attempted to supplant officials in Laos and Vietnam, but in the regions of Vietnam, the resistance from the local proletariat was too strong.

In 1994, Arnett wrote Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad, 35 Years in the World's War Zones.

From September 1944 to January 1945, he led the campaigns to take the Palaus, Leyte and Luzon, and on many raids on Japanese bases, including off the shores of Formosa, China, and Vietnam.

** Air America: From WWII to Vietnam: The Explosive True Story of the Cia's Secret Airline by Christopher Robbins ( Paperback – Jan 15, 1988 )

** Air America From World War II to Vietnam by Christopher Robbins ( Paperback – 2003 )

From 1965 – 70, Hersey was Master of Pierson College, one of twelve residential colleges at Yale University, where his outspoken activism and early opposition to the Vietnam War made him controversial with alumni, but admired by students.

From their base in Cochinchina, the French took over Tonkin ( in modern northern Vietnam ) and Annam ( in modern central Vietnam ) in 1884 – 1885.