The Vietnam War
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Read this article on the history of the Vietnam War. What began as a conflict over decolonization became a Cold War battlefield by the late 1960s, with U.S. troops fighting communist North Vietnamese troops, who were given weapons and support from China and the Soviet Union.
Footnotes
- Herring, America's Longest War
- George C. Herring, "America's Longest War," p.18
- Zinn, "A People's History of the United States," p. 471
- John Prados, "The Numbers Game: How Many Vietnamese Fled South In 1954?" The VVA Veteran, January/February 2005; Retrieved June 25, 2007.
- Robert McNamara, et al, 1999, pp. 166-167
- Ibid.
- The New York Times, "The Wobble on the War on Capitol Hill," Dec 17, 1967
- R. K. Brigham, Guerrilla Diplomacy: the NLF's foreign relations and the Vietnam War (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998). ISBN 9780801433177
- Ben Kiernan and Taylor Owen, Bombs Over Cambodia. Retrieved June 25, 2007.
- Clark Dougan, David Fulgham, et al., The Fall of the South (Boston: Boston Publishing Company, 1985): 22. ISBN 9780939526161
- Asia Times Online, Missiles and Madness. Retrieved June 25, 2007.
- Merle Pribbenow, "The 'Ology War: technology and ideology in the defense of Hanoi, 1967" Journal of Military History 67:1 (2003) p. 183
- Illuminations, Canadians in Vietnam. Retrieved June 25, 2007.
- Anthony Failoa, "In Vietnam, Old Foes Take Aim at War's Toxic Legacy" Washington Post. Retrieved June 25, 2007.