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.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: Increased American bombing in Vietnam prompts anti-war protests in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco.

While at Oxford he also participated in Vietnam War protests and organized an October 1969 Moratorium event.

The environmental movement borrowed tactics from both the successful civil rights movement and the protests against the Vietnam war.

Such a scenario occurred with the US in Vietnam, with the American effort creating dependence in South Vietnam, and war weariness and protests back home.

Under John Gorton he became Minister for Education and Science, and in 1969 he was made Minister for Defence: a challenging post at the height of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War and the protests against it.

The influence of protests against the Vietnam War and of the May 1968 events in France were also felt strongly throughout the British New Left.

During the 1960s, there were numerous protests against the Vietnam War and related to other issues at the U-M. On March 24, 1965, a group of U-M faculty members and 3, 000 students held the nation's first ever faculty-led " teach-in " to protest against American policy in Southeast Asia.

During Lennon's last two years in The Beatles, he and Ono began public protests against the Vietnam War.

* March 19 – March 23 – Afrocentrism, Black power, Vietnam War: Students at Howard University in Washington, D. C., signal a new era of militant student activism on college campuses in the U. S. Students stage rallies, protests and a 5-day sit-in, laying siege to the administration building, shutting down the university in protest over its ROTC program and the Vietnam War, and demanding a more Afrocentric curriculum.

* April 23 – April 30 – Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university ( see main article Columbia University protests of 1968 ).

* June 1 – Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace, claiming to represent the majority of U. S. veterans who served in Southeast Asia, speak against war protests.

" During the Vietnam War, courts typically refused to excuse the perpetrators of illegal protests from punishment on the basis of their challenging the legality of the Vietnam War ; the courts ruled it was a political question.

Against democratic aggressor nations, this strategy can be used to play on the electorate's patience with the conflict ( as in the Vietnam War, and others since ) provoking protests, and consequent disputes among elected legislators.

Hippies were often pacifists, and participated in non-violent political demonstrations, such as civil rights marches, the marches on Washington D. C., and anti – Vietnam War demonstrations, including draft-card burnings and the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests.

At the time of his appointment, public protests against American policies in Vietnam were vehiment throughout Western Europe and among European politicians the credibility of the American nuclear protection was in doubt.

He had made statements calling for the suppression of the protests through his English language newspaper, the Times of Vietnam.

Early in his tenure, he had strong doubts about US intervention in Vietnam, but later his vigorous public defense of US actions in the Vietnam War made him a frequent target of anti-war protests.

Johnson, wary of encountering protests against the Vietnam War, preferred to meet in Washington, D. C.

While the Vietnam War spawned protests and sit-ins on the Olympic College campus, the city was relatively free of civil disorder during the 1960s.

On occasion SPAAGs have been used as very effective direct fire weapons against infantry, for example by American forces during late World War II, in Korea against mass infantry assault, and extensively during the Vietnam War, where for example the U. S. M42 Duster SPAAG ( based on a light tank ) was employed purely for this purpose.

US, began to slow in late 2007 accompanied by stiffer competition from Vietnam and

There were reports of Chinese mounted troops in action during frontier clashes with Vietnam in the mid / late 1970s.

In late 1954, Gen. J. Lawton Collins was made ambassador to " Free Vietnam " ( the term South Vietnam came into use in 1955 ), effectively elevating the country to sovereign status.

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the university was known internationally for its student activism in opposition to US involvement in the Vietnam war, due mainly to the events of May 4, 1970.

In 1930 Ho Chi Minh founded the Communist Party of Vietnam by unifying three smaller communist movements that had emerged in northern, central and southern Vietnam during the late 1920s.

In the late 1920s, work began on the Thakhek – Tan Ap railway, that would have run between Thakhek, Khammuan Province and Tan Ap Railway Station, Quang Binh Province, Vietnam through the Mu Gia Pass.

In late 1960s and early 1970s, student and faculty activists protested against the Vietnam War and MIT's defense research .< ref > The Union of Concerned Scientists was founded on March 4, 1969 during a meeting of faculty members and students seeking to shift the emphasis on military research towards environmental and social problems.

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.

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As of late, Vietnam too had been experiencing an economic boom.

The 2 Battalion 138th Field Artillery of the Kentucky Army National Guard was ordered to service in Vietnam in late 1968.

In late 1968, General Abrams met with Colonel George S. Patton IV-the son of World War II General Patton-who was the regimental commander of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment ( 11th ACR Blackhorse ), the only full regiment of cavalry in Vietnam.

Like the divide that occurred within the black civil rights movement, the late 1960s and the 1970s brought a new generation of activists, many of whom felt that the gay rights movement needed to endorse a larger and more radical agenda to address other forms of oppression, the Vietnam War, and the sexual revolution.

By the late 1970s, the Vietnam War also played a significant part in the development and redevelopment of various Chinatowns in developed Western countries.

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

In the late 1960s during the Vietnam War, some United States Marines used dowsing to attempt to locate weapons and tunnels.

During the late 1960s Peale referring to the anti Vietnam War demonstrations and the perceived laxity of that era blamed these events on Dr. Spock's books claiming that " the U. S. was paying the price of two generations that followed the Dr. Spock baby plan of instant gratification of needs.

Vietnam, where their presence is attested from the late 18th century onwards, is likely to be the first Indochinese country into which the Hmong migrated.

After its withdrawal from France in 1958, this aircraft was eventually assigned to the 8th Tactical Bomb Squadron at Phan Rang Air Base South Vietnam and flew combat bombing missions into the late 1960s.

The French government, which took control of the region in the late 19th century, split Vietnam into three areas: the protectorates of Annam and Tonkin and the colony of Cochinchina.

Set in the late 1920s in China, this was an early entry in a series of Vietnam war era films ( Catch-22, M * A * S * H ), which, though set in other periods of wartime, nevertheless sounded with its depictions of gunboat diplomacy what would come to be recognized as timeless themes.

He rose in the party hierarchy in the late 1950s, and was elected General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam at the 3rd Congress of the Workers Party of Vietnam.