Vietnam: An American Ordeal

by Moss; George Donelson

• ISBN13: 9780205637409
• ISBN10: 020563740X
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2016-09-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

A comprehensive narrative history of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia, from 1942 to 1975. Unlike most general histories of U.S. involvement in Vietnam–which are either conventional, diplomatic or military histories–Vietnam: An American Ordeal synthesizes the perspectives to explore both dimensions of the struggle in greater depth, elucidating more of the complexities of the U.S.-Vietnam entanglement.

This text provides a comprehensive narrative history of the U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia -- from the mid-1940s to the mid-1970s. It takes a balanced, unbiased look at all aspects of the war, and discusses why Americans tried so hard so long to stop the spread of Communism into Indochina, and why they failed.

Table of Contents

Origins of American Intervention in Southeast Asia

The Japanese Occupy Indochina

The Vietnamese Revolution, August 1945 America Supports the French Return to Indochina

Notes

The French Indochina War, 1946-1954

The French Return to Indochina Franco-Vietminh Non-Negotiations

The French Indochina War Begins A Developing Franco-American

Partnership America Extends Containment to Southeast Asia

The Road to Dien Bien Phu

The Battle of Dien Bien Phu, 1954 America Sees Failure and Opportunity

The Geneva Conference

Lessons from a War

Notes

Americarsquo;s Diem Experiment

The Formation of SEATO

The Advent of Ngo Dinh Diem Diem Struggles to Survive

The Battle for Saigon, April 27-May 3, 1955 Diem Consolidates His Regime

The Non-Elections of 1956 Social Revolution in North Vietnam Building a Nation in South Vietnam

ldquo;Diemocracyrdquo; in Action Roots of Revolution in South Vietnam

Hanoi Takes Control of the Southern

Insurgency Civil War in Laos A Failing Experiment Notes

America Raises the Stakes in Vietnam, 1961-1963

Cold War Crises

Crisis in Laos Shoring Up the Diem Regime A Limited Partnership

Social Revolution in South Vietnam Strains in the Limited Partnership

The Buddhist Crisis, May-August, 1963

The Decline of Ngo Dinh Diem

The Fall of Ngo Dinh Diem A Failed Limited Patnership

Notes

America Goes to War, 1964-1965

A Changing World Order

Doing the Same only

Doing More of It Coup Season in South Vietnam

The Gulf of Tonkin Incidents, August 2-4, 1964

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

The Election of 1964 Origins of the Air War over North Vietnam

The American Ground War in South Vietnam

Begins Lyndon Johnson Americanizes the Vietnam War

Notes

Waging Limited War in Vietnam, 1965-1968

The Concept of Limited War Initial Search and Destroy Operations Ia Drang

The Battle That Transformed a War Escalating the War on the Ground, 1966

The Big Unit War, 1967 War in the Central Highlands and

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