United States ends the draft
1973 · Event
Nixon's defense secretary ends conscription, moving the US to an all-volunteer army.
On these timelines: The Vietnam War, USA, Master
More from The Vietnam War
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem (1963)
- North Vietnam's final offensive (1975)
- The Ho Chi Minh trail (1959)
- US ground war begins at Da Nang (1965)
- Saigon Execution photograph (1968)
- Cronkite calls the war a stalemate (1968)
- Operation Ranch Hand sprays Agent Orange (1962)
Around 1973
- Prague Spring (1968)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Birth of hip-hop (1973)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Night Fever (Bee Gees) (1978)