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ISBN 10: 1138632651

ISBN 13: 9781138632653

Author: Patrick J. Hearden

The Tragedy of Vietnam is a brief and accessible text providing a comprehensive overview of the causes and consequences of the Vietnam War. Patrick J. Hearden offers historical background of the conflict and examines its long-term consequences on a regional and global scale. This fifth edition includes expanded discussions of postwar American–Vietnamese relationships and outlines the ways in which the Vietnam War experience has shaped foreign-policy debates in the United States up until the present day.

The Tragedy of Vietnam 5th Table of contents:

1 The French Indochina Empire

The Emergence of Vietnam

The Establishment of French Rule

The Roots of Nationalism and Communism

The Rise of the Vietminh

Document 1-1 Jules Ferry on Colonialism and the Preservation of Capitalism

Document 1-2 Appeal on the Founding of the Indochinese Communist Party, February 18, 1930

Document 1-3 Declaration of Independence of the DRV, September 2, 1945

Chronological List of Main Events

Study Questions

2 The Dream of a Pax Americana

Blueprints for a New World Order

The First Indochina War

The Crisis of World Capitalism

The Bao Dai Regime

Document 2-1 State Department Policy Statement on Indochina Prepared on September 27, 1948

Document 2-2 Problem Paper Prepared by a Working Group in the State Department on February 1, 1950

Document 2-3 Paper on Indochina Prepared in the State Department on March 27, 1952

Chronological List of Main Events

Study Questions

3 America’s Mandarin

The Road to Dien Bien Phu

The Geneva Peace Settlement

The Birth of a Client State

The Revolt in the Rice Fields

Document 3-1 The Final Declaration on Indochina of the Geneva Conference Promulgated on July 21, 1954

Document 3-2 Report on the Covert Operations Conducted by the Saigon Military Mission in 1954 and 1955

Document 3-3 John Foster Dulles, Report on Meeting with Chiefs of American Missions, March 2, 1955

Chronological List of Main Events

Study Questions

4 The Summons of the Trumpet

The Global Domino Theory

The Second Indochina War

The Growth of the Vietcong

The Plot to Topple Diem

Document 4-1 State Department Cable to Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., in Saigon on August 24, 1963

Document 4-2 Ambassador Lodge Cable to the State Department on October 5, 1963

Document 4-3 National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy Cable to Ambassador Lodge on October 30, 1963

Chronological List of Main Events

Study Questions

5 The Master of Deceit

Political Disorder in South Vietnam

The Gulf of Tonkin Affair

The Rhetoric of Restraint

The Decision to Bomb North Vietnam

Document 5-1 The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, August 7, 1964

Document 5-2 Discussion on When to Begin Bombing North Vietnam, September 9, 1964

Document 5-3 Memorandum from McGeorge Bundy to President Lyndon B. Johnson, February 7, 1965

Chronological List of Main Events

Study Questions

6 The Escalating Military Stalemate

The Dispatch of American Ground Troops

The Protracted War of Attrition

The American Antiwar Movement

The Tet Offensive

Document 6-1 Memorandum on Combat Troops in South Vietnam, July 1, 1965

Document 6-2 Notes for a Memorandum on Increasing American Troops in Vietnam, July 20, 1965

Document 6-3 Notes from Lyndon B. Johnson’s Meeting with Advisory Group, March 26, 1968

Chronological List of Main Events

Study Questions

7 Withdrawal Without Victory

The Madman Theory

The Vietnamization Policy

The Paris Peace Treaty

The Fall of Saigon

Document 7-1 Richard Nixon, Address on the War in Vietnam, November 3, 1969

Document 7-2 Statement on Vietnam Peace Treaty Negotiations, October 26, 1972

Document 7-3 Richard Nixon, Letter to Prime Minister Pham Van Dong, February 1, 1973

Chronological List of Main Events

Study Questions

8 The War that Nobody Won

The Ugly Aftermath of War

The Failure of Communism in Vietnam

The Vietnamese Turn Toward Capitalism

The Road to Reconciliation

Document 8-1 Report on POW/MIAs, January 13, 1993

Document 8-2 Free Trade Agreement, July 13, 2000

Document 8-3 Condoleezza Rice, Remarks at Asia-Pacific Economic Summit, November 18, 2006

Chronological List of Main Events

Study Questions

Selected Bibliography

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