The Vietnam War

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

  1. Herring, America's Longest War
  2. George C. Herring, "America's Longest War," p.18
  3. Zinn, "A People's History of the United States," p. 471
  4. John Prados, "The Numbers Game: How Many Vietnamese Fled South In 1954?" The VVA Veteran, January/February 2005; Retrieved June 25, 2007.
  5. Robert McNamara, et al, 1999, pp. 166-167
  6. Ibid.
  7. The New York Times, "The Wobble on the War on Capitol Hill," Dec 17, 1967
  8. R. K. Brigham, Guerrilla Diplomacy: the NLF's foreign relations and the Vietnam War (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998). ISBN 9780801433177
  9. Ben Kiernan and Taylor Owen, Bombs Over Cambodia. Retrieved June 25, 2007.
  10. Clark Dougan, David Fulgham, et al., The Fall of the South (Boston: Boston Publishing Company, 1985): 22. ISBN 9780939526161
  11. Asia Times Online, Missiles and Madness. Retrieved June 25, 2007.
  12. Merle Pribbenow, "The 'Ology War: technology and ideology in the defense of Hanoi, 1967" Journal of Military History 67:1 (2003) p. 183
  13. Illuminations, Canadians in Vietnam. Retrieved June 25, 2007.
  14. Anthony Failoa, "In Vietnam, Old Foes Take Aim at War's Toxic Legacy" Washington Post. Retrieved June 25, 2007.