During WWII, more than 1,000 women left homes and jobs and became the first females to fly for the U.S. military.
In October 1967, a Viet Cong ambush nearly wiped out an American battalion, prompting some in power to question whether the war might be unwinnable.
In October of 1967, a massive protest at the University of Wisconsin turned violent when police arrived on the scene.
In 1965, The Dow Company — best known at that time for making Saran Wrap — began making Napalm, a jellied gas used in warfare in Vietnam.
In 1967, a demonstration at the University of Wisconsin was the first violent campus protest of the antiwar movement.
Protests against the Vietnam War turned personal for President Johnson.
In 1964, American bombers in Vietnam demonstrated that LBJ was a committed anti-Communist.
Truman interpreted a North Korean attack as direct aggression from the Soviet Union.
Truman's first impression of Joseph Stalin was favorable.
Watch the opening scene of My Lai.
What drove a company of American soldiers to commit the worst atrocity in U.S. military history?
What drove a company of American soldiers to commit the worst atrocity in American military history?
