Tag: Vietnamese War

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2nd March 1965: The United States begins Operation Rolling Thunder alongside the Republic of Vietnam Air Force

2nd March 2023
Tagged as: Air Strike, Aircraft, America, Bombing, Johnson, Operation Rolling Thunder, United States, USA, Viet Cong, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vietnamese War

Operation Rolling Thunder lasted for three and a half years and saw hundreds of thousands of tons of bombs dropped on North Vietnam.

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7th January 1979: Pol Pot of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (Cambodia) overthrown when Vietnamese forces capture the capital city Phnom Penh

7th January 2023
Tagged as: Cambodia, Communism, Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot, Vietnam, Vietnamese War

After the Vietnamese forces captured Phnom Penh on 7 January 1979, Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge forces fled into the jungle.