United States Foreign Policy: The Vietnam War - Peace History

                                             The Vietnam War

Contents

I. Introduction

II. Origins of U.S. involvement in Vietnam

• Vietnamese independence and the First Indochina War
• The Geneva Agreements of 1954
• The creation of South Vietnam
• Repression and revolution in South Vietnam
• The expansion of U.S. involvement under Kennedy
• Lyndon Johnson and the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• Johnson takes the nation to war

III. The American War in Vietnam – conduct and costs

• “Pacification”
• The Phoenix program
• Search and destroy: The ground war
• Technological rampage: The air war
• An inhuman fate: The U.S. chemical war
• Peace negotiations
• Costs of war
• Associated wars in Laos and Cambodia (linked page)

IV. The American home front

• Consciousness raising
  
• Creating the antiwar movement
• The antiwar movement in the Nixon years
  
• Protest music of the Vietnam War (linked page)    

    
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