The Vietnam War (Seminar Studies)

✍ Scribed by Mitchell Hall

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 191
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Abbreviations
Chronology
Who's Who
Glossary
Maps
PART 1 The Background
1 Roots of the Vietnam War
The Rise of Vietnamese Nationalism
The First Indochina War
The United States and Ngo Dinh Diem
Johnson's Decisions for War
PART 2 The Vietnam War
2 America Goes to War
Saigon's Deterioration
Rolling Thunder
Making the Commitment
The Ground War
Turmoil in the South
3 Turning Points
The Antiwar Movement
The Debate in Washington
The Tet Offensive
The Nation Reconsiders
Negotiations
4 The End of the Tunnel
Vietnamization
Cambodia
Laos
Negotiations
Pacification
The Easter Offensive
The Paris Agreement
5 Conclusion and Legacy
The American Withdrawal
The Final Offensives
Laos and Cambodia
Impact on the United States
Impact on Vietnam
Postwar Debate
Conclusion
PART 3 Documents
1 The Quagmire Theory of the Vietnam War
2 A Revisionist View of the Vietnam War
3 An Orthodox, Post-Revisionist View of the Vietnam War
4 Roosevelt's Memo to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, 24 January 1944
5 The Vietnamese Declaration of Independence
6 Economic and Military Aid Urged for Indochina
7 The Domino Theory, April 1954
8 The Geneva Accords, 1954
9 The Tonkin Gulf Resolution
10 "Aggression from the North"
11 Hanoi's Negotiating Position
12 "A Compromise Solution in South Vietnam"
13 McNamara Presents Options to President Johnson
14 Washington's Negotiating Position
15 Letter from Ho Chi Minh to Lyndon Johnson
16 CIA Analysis of the Anti-Vietnam War Movement
17 North Vietnamese Goals for the Tet Offensive
18 Report from Vietnam
19 "Peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia"
20 South Vietnam's Six Points for Peace
21 Silent Majority Speech
22 The Invasion of Cambodia
23 John Kerry Testimony
24 South Vietnamese Analysis of the Easter Offensive
25 Paris Peace Accords
26 President Nixon Promises Postwar Reconstruction
27 Resignation Speech of Nguyen Van Thieu
28 Le Duan's Victory Speech
Further Reading
References
Index