Edition statement supplied by publisher. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Kennedy's War. Senator John F. Kennedy on America's Stake in Vietnam ; "The Path of Revolution in the South" ; President Ngo Dinh Diem: Address to US Congress ; Memo from Ambassador Durbrow to Diem ; Notes on a National Security Council Meeting ; Letter from JFK to Diem ; Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield on US Policy in Southeast Asia ; On the Prospects of a "Generals' Coup" ; Televised Interview with President Kennedy ; Ambassador Lodge on the Worsening Situation -- Johnson's War. CIA Memo on National Liberation Front Methods ; The Gulf of Tonkin Incident ; A New Approach to Retaliation ; LBJ: "Peace Without Conquest" ; Meeting Between the President and His Advisors ; "Why We Are in Vietnam" ; A Recommendation for Troop Increases ; General Westmoreland on Military Operations ; "No Attractive Course of Action" ; The Tet Offensive: A CIA Assessment ; The President and His Advisors Review the Situation ; Testimony Regarding the My Lai Massacre ; President Johnson on Limiting the War -- The Antiwar Movement. Call for A March on Washington ; Protest Speech by Paul Potter ; Message from Ho Chi Minh ; Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Beyond Vietnam" ; An Antidraft Call to Action ; An Unwinnable War ; "We Are Mired in Stalemate" ; Weathermen Manifesto ; George McGovern Urges an End to the War ; Report of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest, with Response from President Nixon ; John Kerry's Testimony Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- Nixon's War. Conversation Between Presidents Nixon and Thiêu ; Henry Kissinger to Nixon ; Nixon on the "Silent Majority" and "Vietnamization" ; Nixon on Operations in Cambodia ; Taped Conversation between Nixon and Kissinger ; President Nixon to President Thiêu ; The Paris Peace Accords -- Aftermath. Plea for Emergency Aid for Saigon ; Pardon of Draft Evaders ; The Vietnam Veterans Memorial -- Appendixes. Chronological List ; Web Resources ; Bibliography ; Index.
Summary:
"Defining Documents in American History: Vietnam War offers students a variety of tools of historical importance to study and analyze vital documents from the Vietnam War. From 1956 to 1975, the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong (aided by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist allies) fought a long, bloody war for control of South Vietnam against South Vietnamese forces (aided by the United States and other anti-communist allies). The war lasted twenty years and left countless causalities and severe destruction in its wake, sparking international anti-war movements and controversy about U.S. involvement."--Publisher website.
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