
Preface Acronyms Map of Southeast Asia Chapter 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 the Preservation of Capitalism and Colonialism Document 1-2 Appeal on the Founding of the Communist Party Document 1-3Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam Chronological List of Main Events Study Questions Chapter 2The 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 Chapter 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 CHAPTER 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 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 Mc George Bundy Cable to Ambassador Lodge on October 30, 1963 Chronological List of Main Events Study Questions CHAPTER 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 Lyndon Johnson on the Bombing of North Vietnam, September 8, 1964 Document 5-3 Memorandum from McGeorge Bundy to President Lyndon Johnson, February 7, 1965 Chronological List of Main Events Study Questions CHAPTER 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 Memorandum on Increasing American Troops in Vietnam, July 20, 1965 Document 6-3 Notes from Lyndon Johnson’s Meeting with Advisory Group, March 26, 1968 Chronological List of Main Events Study Questions CHAPTER 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 CHAPTER 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 Credits Index |
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