Access to History: The USA and Vietnam 1945-75 3rd Edition

Author: Vivienne Sanders
Publisher: Hodder Education
ISBN: 1444150790
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 223

Book Description
The book starts with an introduction to the events that led to France's withdrawal from Vietnam and US support of Diem's government and goes on to examine how the conflict escalated and the USA became fully involved. The book also looks at the pressure for peace on the US home front and how this had an impact on the eventual withdrawal and fallout from the war. The role of key figures in the conflict, both American presidents and Vietnamese leaders, is analysed throughout. Throughout the book, key dates, terms and issues are highlighted, and historical interpretations of key debates are outlined. Summary diagrams are included to consolidate knowledge and understanding of the period, and exam-style questions and tips for each examination board provide the opportunity to develop exam skills.

The USA and Vietnam, 1945-75

Author: Vivienne Sanders
Publisher: Hodder Education
ISBN: 9780340804308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 154

Book Description
This second edition provides a thorough and lucid account of America's involvement in Vietnam during this period. Incorporating up-to-date historical interpretations, the text starts with an introduction to the events that lead to France's withdrawal from Vitenam and US support of Diem's government. Key events and issues are analyzed throughout, including the attitude and actions of not only the American presidents and their advisers, but also of prominent Vitnamese figures - Ho Chi Minh, Deim and Giap. The escalation of the conflict, pressure for peace on the US home font and the eventual withdrawal and fallout from the war are also explained. The updated study guides provide a firm basis for answering differentiated, source-based and extended-writing questions.

U.S. History

Author: P. Scott Corbett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1886

Book Description
U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.

Vietnam: An Epic History of a Divisive War 1945-1975

Author: Max Hastings
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 000813300X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 752

Book Description
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘His masterpiece’ Antony Beevor, Spectator ‘A masterful performance’ Sunday Times ‘By far the best book on the Vietnam War’ Gerald Degroot, The Times, Book of the Year

The Vietnam Trauma in American Foreign Policy

Author: Paul M. Kattenburg
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412839563
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376

Book Description
This study of ten fateful decisions made on Indochina between 1961-75 highlights the ascent of the civilian militarists and of strategy over diplomacy in United States policymaking and reveals the inexorably interlinked and escalating character of the decisions and the central purpose of American presidents: not to have to face the expected domestic political consequences of defeat in Indochina. As a result, we were led into a prolonged stalemate in which "acting" and the management of programs became a more important preoccupation than thinking about our purposes and values, in which analysis become wholly subjective and therefore defective, and in which decision-making occurred in a closed system which did not allow for divergent inputs.

Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War

Author: Robert J. McMahon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780618193127
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Each chapter opens with a brief introduction to the topic at hand. The introduction is followed by a series of primary documents and two or three interpretive essays by historians, politcal scientists, participants, or other authorities. The documents reveal the flavor of the time and the range of contemporary issues and retrospective assessments." --pref.

China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950-1975

Author: Qiang Zhai
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876194
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
In the quarter century after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Beijing assisted Vietnam in its struggle against two formidable foes, France and the United States. Indeed, the rise and fall of this alliance is one of the most crucial developments in the history of the Cold War in Asia. Drawing on newly released Chinese archival sources, memoirs and diaries, and documentary collections, Qiang Zhai offers the first comprehensive exploration of Beijing's Indochina policy and the historical, domestic, and international contexts within which it developed. In examining China's conduct toward Vietnam, Zhai provides important insights into Mao Zedong's foreign policy and the ideological and geopolitical motives behind it. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, he shows, Mao considered the United States the primary threat to the security of the recent Communist victory in China and therefore saw support for Ho Chi Minh as a good way to weaken American influence in Southeast Asia. In the late 1960s and 1970s, however, when Mao perceived a greater threat from the Soviet Union, he began to adjust his policies and encourage the North Vietnamese to accept a peace agreement with the United States.

Grand Expectations

Author: James T. Patterson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019507680X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2924

Book Description
Interweaving key cultural, economic, social, and political events, a history of the United States in the post-World War II era ranges from 1945, through a turbulent period of economic growth and social upheaval, to Watergate and Nixon's 1974 resignation

Vietnam

Author: Stanley Karnow
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 071265965X
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 786

Book Description
This monumental narrative clarifies, analyses and demystifies the terrible ordeal of the Vietnam war. Free of ideological bias, profound in its understanding and compassionate in its portrayal of humanity, it is filled with fresh revelations drawn from secret documents and from exclusive interviews with the participants - French, American, Vietnamese, Chinese: diplomats, military commanders, high government officials, journalists, nurses, workers and soldiers. The Vietnam war was the most convulsive tragedy of recent times. This is its definitive history.

Westmoreland's War

Author: Gregory Daddis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199316503
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281

Book Description
This groundbreaking study offers a major reinterpretation of American strategy during the first half of the Vietnam War. Gregory A. Daddis argues senior military leaders developed a comprehensive campaign strategy, one not confined to 'attrition' of enemy forces. This innovative work is a must for a genuine understanding of the Vietnam War.