VIETNAM WAR

Was a Cold War military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to 15 May 1975 when the Mayaguez Incident concluded and two weeks after the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. The Mayaguez incident involving the Khmer Rouge government in Cambodia on 12–15 May 1975, marked the last official battle of the United States (U.S.) involvement in the Vietnam War. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations.
The Viet Cong, a lightly-armed South Vietnamese communist-controlled common front, largely fought a guerrilla war against anti-communist forces in the region. The North Vietnamese Army engaged in a more conventional war, at times committing large units into battle. U.S. and South Vietnamese forces relied on air superiority and overwhelming firepower to conduct search and destroy operations, involving ground forces, artillery and airstrikes.

The United States government viewed involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam and part of their wider strategy of containment. The North Vietnamese government viewed the war as a colonial war, fought initially against France, backed by the United States, and later against South Vietnam, which it regarded as a US puppet state.United States military advisors arrived beginning in 1950. U.S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s, with U.S. troop levels tripling in 1961 and tripling again in 1962. U.S. combat units were deployed beginning in 1965. Operations spanned borders, with Laos and Cambodia heavily bombed. Involvement peaked in 1968 at the time of the Tet Offensive. After this, U.S. ground forces were withdrawn as part of a policy called Vietnamization. Despite the Paris Peace Accords, signed by all parties in January 1973, fighting continued.

The Case–Church Amendment passed by the U.S. Congress prohibited use of American military after 15 August 1973, unless the president secured congressional approval in advance.[23] The capture of Saigon by the North Vietnamese army in April 1975 marked the end of the Vietnam War. North and South Vietnam were reunified the following year.

The war exacted a huge human cost in terms of fatalities (See: Vietnam War casualties), including 3 to 4 million Vietnamese from both sides, between 1.5 to 2 million Laotians and Cambodians, and 58,159 U.S. soldiers

Really modern times

Charles Chaplin on video criticizing society, the hard work they did because most people were exploited for low wages.
Also criticizes the industry, the desire to make money and inequality suffered by the company at the time.

CHILDREN IN VICTORIAN TIMES

During the Industrial Revolution, children, women working in factories and coal mines as men. In Victorian times, coal was very important in industry and exploited children pushing coal trucks along the tunnels of mines which were called putters. Many children began working at 2 am and remained underground for 18 hours.

These children, mostly poor, could not go to school because their families could not afford. Only the rich kids went to school to learn. But fortunately, in 1880, the law says that all children aged 5 to 10 must go to primary school, so that all children receive at least a basic education.

Many Victorian children were poor and worked to help their families. The families had no money so it should work. The Industrial Revolution created new jobs, in factories and mines. Many of these works were first performed by children, because children were cheaper than adults.

WORKING WITH PRESS

TABLE OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Thomas Alva Edison

Thomas Alva Edison born February 11, 1847 and died on October 18, 1931.
He was a businessman and a prolific inventor who patented more than a thousand inventions (for an invention of his adult life every fortnight) and helped to give both the U.S. and Europe, the technology profiles of the contemporary world: the electrical industries, a system viable telephone, the phonograph, movies ...
After saving a child died in the railroad tracks in Port Huron, the grateful father of the child J. U. Mackenzie taught him telegraphy. At sixteen he got his first job as a telegraph operator in Port Huron when J. U. Mackenzie will leave the post to join the Military Telegraph Corps.

In late 1863, supported by Edison J. U. Mackenzie applied for a job as a telegraph Grand Truck Railway at the junction of Stratford. Did not last long in this job because it did not transmit the signals to stop a freight train, therefore, was about to have a head-on collision. He fled to Sarnia, at the Canadian border and took the ferry to Port Huron.

In early 1864, Edison got a job on the railroad southern Lake Shore & Michigan, Adrian, sixty miles south of Detroit where he was fired for disobeying orders. He was ordered to send an important message, and did so without ignoring the protests of the man who was passing across the line, which was the superintendent, Edison unknown detail.