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| Preface | |
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| Acronyms | |
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| Map of Southeast Asia | |
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| The French Indochina Empire | |
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| The Emergence of Vietnam | |
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| The Establishment of French Rule | |
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| The Roots of Nationalism and Communism | |
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| The Rise of the Vietminh | |
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| Document 1-1 Jules Ferry on Colonialism and the Preservation of Capitalism | |
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| Document 1-2 Appeal on the Founding of the Indochinese Communist Party, February 18, 1930 | |
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| Document 1-3 Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, September 2, 1945 | |
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| Chronological List of Main Events | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| The Dream of a Pax Americana | |
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| Blueprints for a New World Order | |
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| The First Indochina War | |
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| The Crisis of World Capitalism | |
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| The Bao Dai Regime | |
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| Document 2-1 State Department Policy Statement on Indochina prepared on September 27, 1948 | |
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| Document 2-2 Problem Paper prepared by a Working Group in the State Department on February 1, 1950 | |
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| Document 2-3 Paper on Indochina prepared in the State Department on March 27, 1952 | |
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| Chronological List of Main Events | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| America's Mandarin | |
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| The Road to Dien Bien Phu | |
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| The Geneva Peace Settlement | |
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| The Birth of a Client State | |
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| The Revolt in the Rice Fields | |
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| Document 3-1 The Final Declaration on Indochina of the Geneva Conference Promulgated on July 21, 1954 | |
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| Document 3-2 Report on the Covert Operations Conducted by the Saigon Military Mission in 1954 and 1955 | |
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| Document 3-3 John Foster Dulles, Report on Meeting with Chiefs of American Missions, March 2, 1955 | |
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| Chronological List of Main Events | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| The Summons of the Trumpet | |
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| The Global Domino Theory | |
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| The Second Indochina War | |
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| The Growth of the Vietcong | |
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| The Plot to Topple Diem | |
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| Document 4-1 State Department Cable to Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., in Saigon on August 24, 1963 | |
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| Document 4-2 Ambassador Lodge Cable to the State Department on Octobers, 1963 | |
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| Document 4-3 National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy Cable to Ambassador Lodge on October 30, 1963 | |
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| Chronological List of Main Events | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| The Master of Deceit | |
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| Political Disorder in South Vietnam | |
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| The Gulf of Tonkin Affair | |
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| The Rhetoric of Restraint | |
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| The Decision to Bomb North Vietnam | |
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| Document 5-1 The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, August 7, 1964 | |
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| Document 5-2 Discussion on When to Begin Bombing North Vietnam, September8, 1964 | |
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| Document 5-3 Memorandum from McGeorge Bundy to President Lyndon Johnson, February 7, 1965 | |
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| Chronological List of Main Events | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| The Escalating Military Stalemate | |
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| The Dispatch of American Ground Troops | |
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| The Protracted War of Attrition | |
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| The American Antiwar Movement | |
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| The Tet Offensive | |
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| Document 6-1 Memorandum on Combat Troops in South Vietnam, July 1, 1965 | |
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| Document 6-2 Notes for a Memorandum on Increasing American Troops in Vietnam, July 20, 1965 | |
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| Document 6-3 Notes from Lyndon Johnson's Meeting with Advisory Group, March 26, 1968 | |
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| Chronological List of Main Events | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Withdrawal Without Victory | |
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| The Madman Theory | |
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| The Vietnamization Policy | |
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| The Paris Peace Treaty | |
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| The Fall of Saigon | |
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| Document 7-1 Richard Nixon, Address on the War in Vietnam, November 3, 1969 | |
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| Document 7-2 Statement on Vietnam Peace Treaty Negotiations, October 26, 1972 | |
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| Document 7-3 Richard Nixon, Letter to Prime Minister Pham Van Dong, February 1, 1973 | |
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| Chronological List of Main Events | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| The War That Nobody Won | |
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| The Ugly Aftermath of War | |
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| The Failure of Communism in Vietnam | |
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| The Vietnamese Turn Toward Capitalism | |
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| The Road to Reconciliation | |
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| Document 8-1 Report on POW/MIAs, January 13, 1993 | |
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| Document 8-2 Free Trade Agreement, July 13, 2000 | |
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| Document 8-3 Condoleezza Rice, Remarks at Asia-Pacific Economic Summit, November 18, 2006 | |
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| Chronological List of Main Events | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |