Vietnam : An American Ordeal
ISBN: 9780205637409 | 020563740X
Edition: 6thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 2/24/2009
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A comprehensive narrative history of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia, from 1942 to 1975. Unlike most general histories of U.S. involvement in Vietnam–which are either conventional, diplomatic or military histories–Vietnam: An American Ordeal synthesizes the perspectives to explore both dimensions of the struggle in greater depth, elucidating more of the complexities of the U.S.-Vietnam entanglement.
This text provides a comprehensive narrative history of the U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia -- from the mid-1940s to the mi... MORE
| Origins of American Intervention in Southeast Asia | |
| The Japanese Occupy Indochina | |
| The Vietnamese Revolution, August 1945 America Supports the French Return to Indochina | |
| Notes | |
| The French Indochina War, 1946-1954 | |
| The French Return to Indochina Franco-Vietminh Non-Negotiations | |
| The French Indochina War Begins A Developing Franco-American | |
| Partnership Americ... MORE | |
| The Road to Dien Bien Phu | |
| The Battle of Dien Bien Phu, 1954 America Sees Failure and Opportunity | |
| The Geneva Conference | |
| Lessons from a War | |
| Notes | |
| Americarsquo;s Diem Experiment | |
| The Formation of SEATO | |
| The Advent of Ngo Dinh Diem Diem Struggles to Survive | |
| The Battle for Saigon, April 27-May 3, 1955 Diem Consolidates His Regime | |
| The Non-Elections of 1956 Social Revolution in North Vietnam Building a Nation in South Vietnam | |
| ldquo;Diemocracyrdquo; in Action Roots of Revolution in South Vietnam | |
| Hanoi Takes Control of the Southern | |
| Insurgency Civil War in Laos A Failing Experiment Notes | |
| America Raises the Stakes in Vietnam, 1961-1963 | |
| Cold War Crises | |
| Crisis in Laos Shoring Up the Diem Regime A Limited Partnership | |
| Social Revolution in South Vietnam Strains in the Limited Partnership | |
| The Buddhist Crisis, May-August, 1963 | |
| The Decline of Ngo Dinh Diem | |
| The Fall of Ngo Dinh Diem A Failed Limited Patnership | |
| Notes | |
| America Goes to War, 1964-1965 | |
| A Changing World Order | |
| Doing the Same only | |
| Doing More of It Coup Season in South Vietnam | |
| The Gulf of Tonkin Incidents, August 2-4, 1964 | |
| The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | |
| The Election of 1964 Origins of the Air War over North Vietnam | |
| The American Ground War in South Vietnam | |
| Begins Lyndon Johnson Americanizes the Vietnam War | |
| Notes | |
| Waging Limited War in Vietnam, 1965-1968 | |
| The Concept of Limited War Initial Search and Destroy Operations Ia Drang | |
| The Battle That Transformed a War Escalating the War on the Ground, 1966 | |
| The Big Unit War, 1967 War in the Central Highlands and | |
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