Tag: viet cong

• An April Shower of Dominoes: 40 Year Anniversary of the End of the Vietnam War

  April 30, 2015 marks the official end to the Vietnam War. April 1975 was as sobering month for the Washington crowd who foolishly hung on to the ideals of the Truman Doctrine. When the South Vietnamese government surrendered Saigon, it completed a remarkable run of luck for the communist rebel groups of Southeast Asia. Within…

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  April 30, 2015

  History & Culture

  April 30 1975, domino theory, fall of saigon, john foster dulles, khmer rouge, pathet lao, viet cong, Vietnam War

• What is History? An Essay

  Every once in a while I like to post a “proper” essay with citations and everything. This one tries to answer the question, “What is History?” There is no simple answer to this question as you will see.  History is an educated guess on a wing and a prayer.  Mere shadows of the past come…

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  February 25, 2014

  History & Culture

  brown v. board, Bui Tin, civil rights, defining history, Dred Scott, George W. Bush, Gettysburg, historical veracity, Israel, plessy v. furgeson, pseudohistory, viet cong, what is history