Operation Rolling Thunder

assassinated in 1963 he has raised the number of U.S. troops in Vietnam from 900 to 16,000. The Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964 provided the U.S. an excuse to roll out a large escalation of the Vietnam War. From the following year until 1968 Operation Rolling Thunder among others is carried out dropping millions of pounds of bombs on North Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. The creep into Cambodia and Laos was not welcome by the American public and lead to widespread protests across America. This was…

As tensions with the Soviet Union eased, a crisis was growing in Southeast Asia. Events there were moving toward what would become the greatest American foreign policy disaster of the century. President John F Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union met in Vienna, Austria in 1961 [1]. They got together to discuss a bargain to support a neutral and independent Laos. The American president did not want to lose Laos to the communists. Kennedy was prepared to accept neutrality for…

* Phony War * Period between 1939- 1940 * there was very little combat as both sides built up their armies and arsenals * Axis * Alliance between Germany, Italy and later Japan * The 'Blitz' * in September of 1940, bombings of London and other major cities occurred in what the British called `the Blitz` * Italian Campaign, 1943 * in July 1943, Canadian, British, and American forces launched an assault on the Italian island of Sicily * by…

Each had his own following, and there were some violent debates. At the Meetings Snowball often won over the majority by his brilliant speeches, but Napoleon was better at canvassing support for himself in between times. He was especially successful with the sheep. Of late the sheep had taken to bleating ‘Four legs good, two legs bad’ both in and out of season, and they often interrupted the Meeting with this. It was noticed that they were especially liable to break into ‘Four legs good,…