The Vietnam War

Cover — Title — Copyright — Contents — Abbreviations — Chronology — Who’s Who — Glossary — Maps — PART 1 The Background — 1 Roots of the Vietnam War — The Rise of Vietnamese Nationalism — The First Indochina War — The United States and Ngo Dinh Diem — Johnson’s Decisions for War — PART 2 The Vietnam War — 2 America Goes to War — Saigon’s Deterioration — Rolling Thunder — Making the Commitment — The Ground War — Turmoil in the South — 3 Turning Points — The Antiwar Movement — The Debate in Washington — The Tet Offensive — The Nation Reconsiders — Negotiations — 4 The End of the Tunnel — Vietnamization — Cambodia — Laos — Negotiations — Pacification — The Easter Offensive — The Paris Agreement — 5 Conclusion and Legacy — The American Withdrawal — The Final Offensives — Laos and Cambodia — Impact on the United States — Impact on Vietnam — Postwar Debate — Conclusion — PART 3 Documents — 1 The Quagmire Theory of the Vietnam War — 2 A Revisionist View of the Vietnam War — 3 An Orthodox, Post-Revisionist View of the Vietnam War — 4 Roosevelt’s Memo to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, 24 January 1944 — 5 The Vietnamese Declaration of Independence — 6 Economic and Military Aid Urged for Indochina — 7 The Domino Theory, April 1954 — 8 The Geneva Accords, 1954 — 9 The Tonkin Gulf Resolution — 10 “Aggression from the North — 11 Hanoi’s Negotiating Position — 12 “A Compromise Solution in South Vietnam — 13 McNamara Presents Options to President Johnson — 14 Washington’s Negotiating Position — 15 Letter from Ho Chi Minh to Lyndon Johnson — 16 CIA Analysis of the Anti-Vietnam War Movement — 17 North Vietnamese Goals for the Tet Offensive — 18 Report from Vietnam — 19 “Peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia — 20 South Vietnam’s Six Points for Peace — 21 Silent Majority Speech