The Sixties in America Almanac | The Agony of Vietnam

• Prelude to war
• Atrocities: The My Lai and Hue Massacres
• Americans fight in Vietnam: A slowly escalating war
• The Tet Offensive
• Vietnamization
• A Soldier's War: The Difficulties of Fighting in Vietnam
• The Paris Peace Accords
• Judging the war
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The Vietnam War (1954–75) was a war like no other in American history. It was America's longest war: military advisors were in the country from 1954 until 1975, and actual combat troops were in the country from 1965 to 1975. For those government and military...