Research Catalog
The Vietnam War
- Title
- The Vietnam War / David L. Anderson.
- Author
- Anderson, David L., 1946-
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | DS557.7 A54 2005 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- ix, 152 pages : map; 22 cm.
- Summary
- The Vietnam War was a thirty-year conflict that actually included several wars, cost billions of dollars, resulted in thousands of Vietnamese, French, and American deaths, and reverberated throughout the international community. Now in this new concise overview David Anderson lays out the origins, course, and historical legacies of the war for students. The text discusses the French colonial war and the Vietnamese phase of the conflict to 1975, but the primary focus of the text is on the American war in Vietnam. The author examines military, political, diplomatic, social and economic issues, both in Vietnam and the United States.
- Series Statement
- Twentieth-century wars
- Uniform Title
- Twentieth-century wars.
- Subject
- The Vietnam War Filmmusik
- 1945-1989
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > United States
- Vietnam Conflict
- 15.85 history of America
- 15.75 history of Asia
- Politics and government
- Kriegsursache
- Vietnamkrieg
- Vietnam-oorlog
- United States of America
- Vietnam
- Vietnam War
- History
- United States > Politics and government > 1945-1989
- United States
- USA
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Causes : colonialism and containment -- The origins of Vietnam -- French colonialism -- Ho Chi Minh and Vietnamese communism -- The Franco-Vietminh War -- The United States and the Franco-Vietminh War -- 2. Commitments : Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Ngo Dinh Diem -- The end of the Franco-Vietminh War -- The US decision to support South Vietnam -- Nation building in South Vietnam -- John F. Kennedy and counterinsurgency warfare -- 3. Credibility : Lyndon Johnson's war -- To the Gulf of Tonkin -- Americanization of the war -- American strategy -- Stalemate -- 4. Contention : antiwar protests, the Tet Offensive, and a tumultuous election -- Antiwar movement -- Tet -- Combat without compromise -- Election of 1968 -- 5. Consequences : Richard Nixon's war -- More bombs and fewer troops -- Cambodia and Kent State -- Stalemate continues -- The Paris agreement to end the war -- 6. Conclusions : peace at last and lasting legacies -- Brother enemies -- Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos after the war -- US post-war issues -- Lessons and legacies.
- ISBN
- 0333963369
- 9780333963364
- 0333963377
- 9780333963371
- LCCN
- 2004056953
- 9780333963371
- OCLC
- ocm56880068
- 56880068
- SCSB-14483704
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library