Vietnam War

Điện Biên Phủ is a valley town in northwestern Vietnam, tucked into the rugged highlands where the long, narrow Indochinese Peninsula pushes south from the underbelly of southern China — exactly the…

Geneva, Switzerland — the landlocked Alpine city where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva between the Alps and the Jura mountains — was where the 1954 Geneva Accords were signed, ending the First Indochina…

The signing took place in Manila, the capital of the Philippines — an archipelago nation sitting where the South China Sea meets the western Pacific, on the island of Luzon, the largest in a chain…

The Ho Chi Minh Trail wound through the Truong Son Mountains — the long ridge running down the spine of the Indochinese Peninsula, flanked by the South China Sea to the east and the Mekong lowlands…

Washington D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the Potomac River on the eastern seaboard of North America — but the crisis that drove this decision unfolded thousands of miles away in the…

The incident took place in the Gulf of Tonkin, the body of water hugging the coast of northern Vietnam — exactly the narrow, enclosed sea arm between the Indochina Peninsula and China's Hainan…

This is Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam — sitting on the Red River delta where the narrow Indochinese Peninsula faces the Gulf of Tonkin, just inland from the South China Sea. Beginning in March…

This is Ho Chi Minh City — known as Saigon at the time — in Vietnam, the long, narrow country hugging the eastern edge of the Indochinese Peninsula along the South China Sea, exactly where the Mekong…

My Lai is a village in Quang Ngai Province, in what is now central Vietnam — on the thin coastal lowland squeezed between the Annamite Mountains to the west and the South China Sea to the east. On…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the Potomac River along the Atlantic seaboard of North America, nestled between the Appalachian Mountains to the west and the Atlantic…

This is Kent, Ohio, in the United States — a midwestern university town sitting in the broad, flat terrain south of Lake Erie, one of the five Great Lakes that straddle the US-Canada border. On May…

This event unfolded in Cambodia, a landlocked nation on the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, tucked between the Mekong River to its east and the Cardamom Mountains to its west, with Vietnam…

This is Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam — a city sitting on the Red River delta in the northern part of a long, thin peninsula that stretches southward from the Chinese border into the South China Sea…

This was Quang Tri province, in northern South Vietnam — right along the narrow coastal strip where the country pinches between the South China Sea to the east and the Annamite mountain range to the…

This event unfolded in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, situated on the Potomac River along the eastern seaboard between the Atlantic coast and the Appalachian Mountains. In…

Paris, France — the city straddling the Seine River in the heart of Western Europe — is where the January 27, 1973 Paris Peace Accords were signed, ending direct United States military involvement in…

This is Ho Chi Minh City — formerly Saigon — in southern Vietnam, sitting in the Mekong River delta where that long, narrow Southeast Asian peninsula tapers toward its southern tip between the Gulf…