Where the Domino Fell: America and Vietnam 1945-2006, 5th Edition

by James S. Olson (Sam Houston State University); Randy W. Roberts (Purdue University)

• ISBN13: 9781933385150
• ISBN10: 1933385154
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Where the Domino Fell recounts the history of American involvement in Vietnam from the end of World War II to the present, clarifying the political aims, military strategy, and social and economic factors that contributed to the participants' actions. A new final chapter relates the foreign policy thinking of the Vietnam era to the decisions made that led the U.S. into the invasion of Iraq in 2003.Narrated in an accessible style by two distinguished historians, Where the Domino Fell is compact yet substantial. The bibliography, chronology, and glossary at the end make this volume is an important contribution not only to the study of the Vietnam War but to an understanding of the larger workings of American foreign policy.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Prologue: LBJ and Vietnam	p. ix
Eternal War: The Vietnamese Heritage	p. 1
The First Indochina War, 1945-1954	p. 19
The Making of a Quagmire, 1954-1960	p. 46
The New Frontier in Vietnam, 1961-1963	p. 71
Planning a Tragedy, 1963-1965	p. 101
Into the Abyss, 1965-1966	p. 123
The Mirage of Progress, 1966-1967	p. 145
Tet and the Year of the Monkey, 1968	p. 172
The Beginning of the End, 1969-1970	p. 198
The Fall of South Vietnam, 1970-1975	p. 223
Distorted Images, Missed Opportunities, 1975-1995	p. 247
'Nam, Islam, and the American Future	p. 268
Bibliography	p. 277
A Vietnam War Chronology	p. 287
Glossary and Guide to Acronyms	p. 295
Index	p. 297
Maps
Indochina, 1995	p. xii
Vietnam, 1945 to 1975	p. 70
Major battles of the Tet offensive, January 1968	p. 177
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