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America's War in Vietnam : A Short Narrative History /
"If you want to read one book about Vietnam, read this one."--New York Review of Books Drawing on years of experience teaching about the war, Larry H. Addington presents a short, narrative history of the origins, course, and outcome of America's military involvement in Vietnam. Not in...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, Ind. :
Indiana University Press,
2000.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Geography of Vietnam and its history to World War Two
- The career of Ho Chi Minh to 1939
- World War Two and America's collaboration with Ho
- America and the Indochina War, 1946-1954
- Eisenhower and the road to America's war in Vietnam, 1954-1960
- Kennedy's war; counter-insurgency and the fall of Diem, 1961-1963
- Johnson's war, I; to the brink, 1964
- Johnson's war, II; the year of the plunge, 1965
- Johnson's war III; moving toward defeat, 1966-1967
- Johnson's war, IV; the turning year, 1968
- Nixon's war, I; the strategy of withdrawal, 1969-1970
- Nixon's war, II; the final round, 1971-1972
- The Paris Peace accords and the fall of Indochina, 1973-1975
- Aftermath and summing up.