The Cambodian campaign was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia in mid-1970 by South Vietnam and the United States as an expansion of the Vietnam War and the Cambodian Civil W
Meeting in Beijing in 1965: Mao Zedong (l), Prince Sihanouk (c), and Liu Shaoqi (r)
A B-52D on a bombing mission over Southeast Asia
On 30 April 1970, President Nixon announced the attack into Cambodia. In a televised address to the nation, he justified it as a necessary response to North Vietnamese aggression.
ARVN and US Army attacks beyond Cambodian borders to seek out enemy troops within 29 April and 1 July 1970
The Kent State shootings were the killing of four and wounding of nine unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on the Kent State University campus in Kent, Ohio, United States. The shootin
Cambodian campaign
…4 May the unrest escalated to violence when Ohio National Guardsmen shot and killed four unarmed students (two of whom were not protesters) during the Kent State shootings. Two days later, at the University at Buffalo, police wounded four more demonstrators. On 15 May city and state police killed two and wounded twelve…
John Filo's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the dead body of Jeffrey Miller minutes after the unarmed student was fatally shot by an Ohio National Guardsman
Poster calling for a nationwide student anti-war strike on May 4, 1970
Photo taken from the perspective of where the Ohio National Guard soldiers stood when they opened fire on the students