Many became victims of the increasingly brutal Vietnam War. If the average American had to name a hero of recent history off the top of their head, the name John McCain would probably be high on ...
he should have won his party's nomination without any trouble. But growing opposition to the war in Vietnam, unrest on college campuses, and urban rioting, made him vulnerable. In November 1967 ...
It also demonstrated the US people’s changing feelings about the Vietnam War. By 1969, Johnson was hugely unpopular (there were lots of anti-war protests) and Richard Nixon had won the recent ...
The USA would ultimately drop three million tonnes of bombs in Vietnam - more than all the bombs dropped in Europe during World War Two. However, bombing was highly inaccurate due to the jungle ...