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- 31: Richard Nixon's Presidency
- ... 000 U.S. troops in South Vietnam. The withdrawal took four years, however, during which the war raged and U.S. casualties mounted. Nixon authorized a U.S. incursion into Cambodia in 1970 and the bombing of Hanoi and the mining of Haiphong Harbor in 1972. These actions were unpopular, but he credited them with helping to bring about a negotiated ...
- 32: President Gerald Ford
- ... Vietnam collapsed to North Vietnam in 1975 ending the 'war' there. Ford offered a conditional amnesty to Vietnam draft evaders. There was the overthrow of the Lon Nol regime in Cambodia Kampuchea by Communist forces. There was a successful rescue attempt for the recapture of the U.S. Freighter Mayaguez and its crew which were seized by Cambodian forces. We got ...
- 33: The Rise of the Manchus
- ... peripheral states that had acknowledged Chinese suzerainty and given tribute to the emperor. France colonized Cochin China, as southern Vietnam was then called, and by 1864 established a protectorate over Cambodia. Following a victorious war against China in 1884-85, France also took Annam. Britain gained control over Burma. Russia penetrated into Chinese Turkestan (the modern-day Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region ...
- 34: The Vietnam Era
- ... Government. Helicopters were the real work horses of the war for the U.S. In 1974 the war ended for the U.S. At the end to the Vietnam War, Cambodia(Southwest Asia) went into Civil War after the U.S. had invaded it and left. Well over one million people were killed in the fighting. Pol Pot was the leader ...
- 35: Social Effects of the Vietnam War on the United States
- ... Nixon hoped that reducing the number of Americans getting killed in Vietnam the protests against the war would stop. In April of 1970 President Nixon secretly ordered an attack on Cambodia. This invasion was not successful, and it did not help the war effort. In protest, students held demonstrations at over 400 colleges and universities. In Ohio at Kent State University ...
- 36: Buddhism
- ... important ways. The actual meaning of the word Theravada is “ Way of the Elders.” It is the oldest of all traditions. It is the primary practice in countries such as, Cambodia, Burma, Laos, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Theravada sees Buddha as a historical figure. This means instead of seeing Buddha as a divine figure, they see him as a great man ...
- 37: Hinduism and Buddhism
- ... state of consciousness beyond that which has a definition. Buddhism had spread rapidly throughout India, as did Hinduism. Mahayana, a form of the Buddhist religion, and Hinduism began to influence Cambodia by the end of the 2nd century AD. Buddhism was carried to central Asia and spread especially in China then carried into Japan and Korea and flourishes in Tibet. New ...
- 38: Buddhism
- ... Great Vehicle. Followers of Mahayana refer to Theravada using the negative term Hinayana, "the Lesser Vehicle." Buddhism has been important not only in India but also in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos, where Theravada has been important; Mahayana has had its greatest impression in China, Japan, Taiwan, Tibet, Nepal, Mongolia, Korea, and Vietnam, and India. The number of Buddhists ...
- 39: Kent State University Incident
- ... Incident The End of the Innocence After a long period of fighting a defensive war in Vietnam, on April 29, 1970, President Richard Nixon launched a full scale attack in Cambodia, which greatly accelerated America¹s involvment in this conflict. The reaction from the American college student population was one that led into great controversy and heated debates. When Nixon announced ...
- 40: Biological and Chemical Weapons!!
- ... world war II, in many instances chemical weapons have been used despite the world’s ban; for example, by Egyptians in Yemen in 1963-1967, by Vietnamese in Laos and Cambodia in the late 1970s and last but not definitely least by Iraq in Iran-Iraq war. “A untied nations investigating panel of scientists from neutral countries reported that mustard agent ...
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