The construction of the palace and city walls began around 1350 B.C. About 100 years later, Mycenaeans constructed the Lion Gate and its bastion, along with a new wall to the west and south of the original wall. This new fortification encompassed Grave Circle A and the city's religious center.
Americans grew
critical of the war because the Viet Cong were viewed as remaining strong.
The North Vietnamese Army together with the Vietcong launched a massive offensive
on South Vietnam during the holiday of Tet.
Fighting erupted on various fronts including the capital of Saigon. Even the U.S. Embassy breached by the
enemy. Though the Communists were driven
out and suffered massive casualties, American public opinion turned against the
war and it resulted into the withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Vietnam. This led the North to conquer the South
ending in a unified Vietnam under Communist rule for decades.
They shaped the government by creating a constitution .
Germany was the aggressor nation. The event described was the <u>siege of Leningrad</u>, part of Germany's World War II aggression against the Soviet Union. The siege lasted from September 1941 to January 1944, a total of 872 days. More than 1,000,000 Soviet civilians died during the siege. (German forces had finally weakened by then.)