Sullivan demonstrates the importance of using a variety of empirical and quantitative evidence to study foreign policy and of relating a specific historical situation like the Vietnam War to broader theories of international relations.
Compiling insightful maps, at-a-glance timelines, and incredible archive photography, The Vietnam War is an all-encompassing showcase of the story of the conflict, and a reflection on modern issues of battle such as prisoners of war and ...
The Vietnam War sparkled one of the most controversial periods in American History.
Marine Private John Corbett, from Nyack, New York, who had only recently arrived, took cover with two other men in his fighting hole, roofed with sandbags and dirt-filled ammumition boxes. An enemy rocket hit the main Marine ammunition ...
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Two of the most well- known protests against the Vietnam War were at the Chicago Democratic Convention in 1968 and Ohio's Kent State University in 1970. SpeculaVietnam war protesters in the United States tion at the convention on who ...
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McGeorge Bundy to Johnson, 7 February 1965, FRUS, 1964–1968, vol. ... 174–85; Lyndon Baines Johnson, Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963–1969 (New York: Popular Library ... George W. Allen, None So Blind: A Personal Account.
Discusses the historical and political background, military strategies, and battles of the Vietnam War.
The Vietnam War explains "the first war America ever lost." The book begins with the War's origins after World War II and discusses the Cold War context of the 1950s.
Following victory , President George H. W. Bush's said , “ By God , we've kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for all !, ” showing a new outlook . The United States also sent forces to Kosovo in the 1990s ; to Afghanistan in 2001 ...
Nixon's War Just before the 1968 presidential election , Lyndon Johnson almost worked out a deal with North Vietnam to end the waruntil South Vietnamese leader Nguyen Van Thieu refused to go along . Thieu had been in contact with ...
"Explores various perspectives on the Vietnam War and those involved in it. The reader's choices reveal the historical details"--
The Vietnam War chronicles the first war to be televised.
With updates from the author, specially commissioned maps and 50 new images, this is a concise overview of America's most divisive war.
Explores the origins of the conflict in Vietnam and the events that led to the United States taking a leading role in it, follows the major events of the war and American reactions to it, and examines the ending of the war and its ...
6 John S. Bowman, The Vietnam War: An Almanac (Bison, 1985), 167. 7 Ibid., 170. 8 Ibid., 171. 9 Ibid.,172. 10 Ibid., 173. 11 Ibid., 173. 12 Ibid., 174. 13 Ibid., 174. 14 Ibid., 174. 15 Ibid., 174. 16 Ibid., 180.
Hailed as a "pithy and compelling account of an intensely relevant topic" (Kirkus Reviews), this wide-ranging volume offers a superb account of a key moment in modern U.S. and world history.
Created in association with the Smithsonian Institution, this authoritative guide chronicles America's fight against Communism in southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s, and comprehensively explores the people, politics, events, and ...
The text features documents that foster discussion on the continuing debates about the causes, consequences and morality of the US intervention.