After the Vietnamese forces captured Phnom Penh on 7 January 1979, Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge forces fled into the jungle.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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Over 500,000 protesters marched on Washington D.C. as part of the national Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution granted powers to President Johnson to use American military force to assist countries in Southeast Asia that were facing so-called ‘communist aggression’.
Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death at a busy crossroads in Saigon.
Ohio National Guardsmen shot and killed four Kent State University students.
On 29th April 1975, America began Operation Frequent Wind – the evacuation of over 1,000 American civilians and a further 6,000 “at-risk” Vietnamese from Saigon.
The withdrawal of the last regular American troops from South Vietnam ended eight years of direct US military involvement in Vietnam.
On the 1st February 1968, American photojournalist Eddie Adams took a photograph of South Vietnamese National Police Chief General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém in Saigon.
He likened the spread of communism in Southeast Asia to a row of dominoes quickly collapsing after the first one falls.
On the 16th March 1968, US soldiers from Company C of the Americal Division’s 11th Infantry Brigade committed the My Lai Massacre.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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