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| Introduction | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Historical Narrative | |
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| Studying the Vietnam War | |
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| Vietnam: Historical Background | |
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| Roots of the Vietnamese Culture and State | |
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| The Impact of French Colonialism | |
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| The Rise of Vietnamese Nationalism | |
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| The Origins of Vietnamese Communism | |
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| United States: Historical Background | |
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| Idealism and Realism in U.S. Foreign Relations | |
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| The United States and the Open Door in Asia | |
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| The World Wars: The Legacies of Wilson and Munich | |
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| The Origins of the Cold War | |
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| The French War in Vietnam | |
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| The August Revolution | |
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| Outbreak of the Franco-Vietminh War | |
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| U.S. Support of France in Indochina | |
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| Dienbienphu and the Geneva Conference | |
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| The Diem Years: Eisenhower | |
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| The Decision to Back Ngo Dinh Diem | |
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| The Non-election of 1956 | |
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| The Illusion of Nation Building | |
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| NLF: Rise of the Southern Insurgency | |
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| The Diem Years: Kennedy | |
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| Counterinsurgency Warfare | |
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| The Buddhist Crisis | |
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| The Diem Assassination | |
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| What If Kennedy Had Lived? | |
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| The American War in Vietnam: Escalation | |
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| The Gulf of Tonkin Incident | |
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| Rolling Thunder | |
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| Johnson Decides on a Land War in Asia | |
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| Theories of Causation | |
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| The American War in Vietnam: Strategy | |
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| The Draft | |
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| Attrition Strategy and Body Count | |
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| Humpin' It: The American Soldier | |
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| The Air War | |
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| Diplomacy | |
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| The Resilient Enemy | |
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| The American War in Vietnam: The Limits of Power | |
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| The Tet Offensive | |
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| The Antiwar Movement and the Media | |
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| Johnson's Decision to Stop Escalation | |
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| The Presidential Election of 1968 | |
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| The American War in Vietnam: De-escalation | |
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| Vietnamization and More Bombing | |
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| Cambodia and Kent State | |
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| Negotiations and the Paris Peace Accords | |
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| DRV Victory in 1975 | |
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| The War That Will Not Go Away | |
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| The Postwar Wars in Southeast Asia | |
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| American Vietnam Veterans | |
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| Films, Fiction, and Poetry | |
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| Postmortems | |
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| The Vietnam War from A to Z | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Resource Guide | |
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| General Works | |
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| Bibliographies and Historiographical Essays | |
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| Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Atlases | |
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| Surveys and Syntheses | |
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| Document Collections | |
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| Biographies | |
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| Memoirs | |
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| Oral Histories | |
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| History of Southeast Asia and U.S. Foreign Relations | |
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| General History of Vietnam | |
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| History of U.S. Foreign Relations | |
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| The French Indochina War | |
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| Laos and Cambodia | |
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| The Diem Years | |
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| North Vietnam and the Vietcong | |
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| Escalation of the American War | |
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| The Gulf of Tonkin Incident | |
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| Lyndon Johnson's Decisions for War | |
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| The American Way of War | |
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| Military Operations and Overviews | |
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| My Lai Massacre | |
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| Pacification and Counterinsurgency | |
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| International Setting | |
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| The Limits of American Power | |
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| Antiwar Movement | |
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| American Politics and Economy | |
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| Television and the Press | |
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| The Tet Offensive | |
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| The End of the American War | |
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| Richard Nixon's War and Diplomacy | |
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| The End of South Vietnam | |
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| The Legacy of the Vietnam War | |
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| Lessons and Postmortems | |
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| Literature, Movies, and Music | |
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| American Cultural Myths and National Identity | |
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| Films and Documentaries | |
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| Electronic Resources | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Documents | |
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| Statistics | |
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| Index | |