The United States lost 58,000 military personnel killed in action over ten years of combat operations in the Vietnam War

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The Stanford Research Institute spun off from Stanford University to become SRI International following campus protests over United States Department of Defense contracts during the Vietnam War

Robert Caro selected the November 1965 Battle of Ia Drang Valley as a detailed case study for his volume covering Lyndon B. Johnson's conduct of the Vietnam War

United States military escalation in the Vietnam War derailed Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency and curtailed Lyndon B. Johnson's domestic legislative goals

It was the parents and grandparents of young men who swayed polls against the Vietnam War, not the young men protesting conscription

Pattaya, Thailand, was transformed from a fishing village into a destination for US servicemen during the Vietnam War.

Michael Harrington, a public intellectual, became the head of the Socialist Party in 1968.

In the spring of 1969, the MIT Physics Department walked out in protest of the Vietnam War.

Richard Nixon's use of the 'madman theory' included threats to use nuclear weapons against North Vietnam.

During the Vietnam War, US aircraft carriers generally made port calls every one to two months.

The redirection of the U.S. Navy's budget towards the Vietnam War led to reduced funding for underwater exploration.

Children in Laos are still being injured or killed by unexploded American cluster munitions left from the Vietnam War.

The United States left 80 million unexploded cluster munitions on the ground in Laos following the Vietnam War.

In 1968, Berkeley students Yuji Ichioka and Emma Gee organized Asian students within the anti-war movement.

The Asian American Political Alliance was formed following a meeting of students with Asian surnames from the Peace and Freedom Party's voter lists.

Fewer than 1% of U.S. troops deployed in the Vietnam War were from the National Guard.