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these casahistoria sites for further background:
Vietnam War, Part One: US
Involvement and campaigns
Indochina: the French
experience in Indochina
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Vietnamese History: Centuries of Struggling
for Independence A general outline
history, currently a work in progress but is well worth using for
background biographies to the pre European imperial period.
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Vietnam
Not a history
site, but one that gives you a tourist insight into a country opening more
and more to tourism. This includes sections on: 'The History of Vietnam',
'Location, Geography and Climate', 'Vietnamese Culture' and 'Vietnamese
People'. A full account of current Vietnam can be found at the
CIA
World Factbook site.
Vietnam: A Television History
PBS
Transcripts from the US TV series
is a 13-part documentary
film series produced for public television by WGBH Boston, in cooperation
with Central Independent Television/United Kingdom, and Antenne-2/France.
Useful especially for first hand interviews, but also:
Lessons of the Vietnam War -- A Curriculum
from the Center for Social Studies Education. US curriculum guide and
materials for High School teachers (and students).
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2.
Protest & Opposition
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 "By
Reason of Religious Training and Belief..."
A History of Conscientious
Objection and Religion during the Vietnam War By Karl D. Nelson. Very
thorough account of an often ignored area written as an Honors Senior
Project at Western Washington University.
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The Draft Lottery by Date of Birth: Would You
Been Drafted in 1969? Interesting
article to read today....
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May 4, 1970
A basic overview of the events that led to the killing of four students by
the National Guard at Kent State University.
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Country Joe McDonald Country Joe McDonald was a leading figure in the Anti-Vietnam
War movement. This tells his story.
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The Vietnam Generation Part of the 60´s
project. Not the easiest site to use but gives an insight into the
'Anti-Vietnam War' protest movement.
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Vietnam Veterans Against the War The Vietnam Veterans
Against the War website contains articles from past editions of The
Veteran newspaper and includes a 'History of the Vietnam War' with a
large collection of photographs. See also this
Statement by John Kerry to the Senate Committee of
Foreign Relations April 23, 1971
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Radical Times: The Antiwar Movement of
the 1960s
A fantastic and thorough resource about the anti-war movement. Includes
Woodstock, counterculture, violence & unrest, and more.
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The Rise and Fall of the Anti-Vietnam War
Movement in the U.S.
This essay was written in 1990-1, at
the time of the Gulf War, by a veteran of the Anti-Vietnam War movement of
the 1960, of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the main campus-based
anti-war organization, of the Worker-Student Alliance Caucus of SDS, which
stood for urging students to ally with the American working class to oppose
capitalist and imperialist exploitation both at home and abroad --
exploitation which they saw as the root cause of the war in Vietnam.
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Homefront USA PBS
Transcripts from the US TV series
Vietnam: A Television History. Useful
especially for first hand interviews
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3. US Withdrawal
Vietnamization
Peace
Fall of Saigon
and the South
The
Missing, and Dead...
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MIA Issue
The history of the continuing and serious MIA (Missing In Action) issue
between the U.S. and Vietnam.
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Search the Wall
Search for names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Some analysis
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Lessons of Vietnam A
fascinating interview with the author of Dereliction of Duty, Army
Major H.R. McMaster, who blames the politicians and the president for the
war.
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The Lessons of the Vietnam War An interview with Noam Chomsky,
reprinted from Indochina Newsletter, November - December, 1982.
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How Could Vietnam Happen - An
Autopsy This 1968 article from the Atlantic
Monthly examines the politics of the war and how America's leaders
were simply ineffective. You will need to register now to access this.
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Gen. William C. Westmoreland Was Right History net by Dale Andrad
, senior historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History, adapted from
a 2008 article in the June 2008 Small Wars and Insurgencies.
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As I Saw It And Now
See It
An Analysis Of America's Unique Experience In V'nam By General
W. C. Westmoreland, USA, February, 1989. Not an impartial account......
Posted by the American War
Library
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The War Makers
Interesting article arguing that the Vietnam was actually the bastard
child of five presidents: Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and
Ford. He looks at how they and their advisers shared responsibility for
the policy of war in Vietnam By John Dellinger.
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Recalling the Vietnam War Audio interviews with 16 influential
decision-makers and thinkers from University of California, Berkeley
research gallery. The interviews highlight the complex environment
in which decisions were made that resulted in American involvement in
Vietnam.
and if you are looking for more, try here:
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The
Vietnam Conflict An academic information portal for research on the
Vietnam War. Includes articles that assess the impact of the Vietnam War
and compare it to other conflicts.
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4. Contagion & the Neighbours:
Laos & Cambodia ...
Cambodia
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President Nixon's Speech to the American
Public, April 30, 1970 Nixon's
justification of the offensive in Cambodia.
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Losing Ground to
the Khmer Rouge As the war in Vietnam wound down with the signing of
the 1973 Paris Peace Accords, the war in neighboring Cambodia was going
from bad to worse. By Wilfred P. Deac from Vietnam magazine
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Last Days
of Cambodia As America's involvement in Indochina came to an end in
the spring of 1975, the Khmer Rouge closed in on Phnom Penh for the kill.
By Wil Deac. Article originally from HistoryNet
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Facing Death:
Portraits from Cambodia's Killing Fields (Be patient to let the images
load - this is a cached version as the site is no longer available
otherwise
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The Khmer Rouge regime held power in
Cambodia for three years, eight months, and twenty days between 1975 and
1979. During that time, as many as 200,000 individuals were designated
enemies of the state. Over 14,000 men, women, and children were taken to Tuol Sleng, Prison S-21, where all but seven were executed or died from
the effects of torture and maltreatment. This site catalogues the victims.
From UCR California Museum.
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The Friends of Pol Pot by John Pilger in The Nation magazine,
May 11, 1998 looks at the western support for Pol Pot
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The Legacy of
Pol Pot A Time photo essay
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Cambodian
Genocide Program The Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979, in which
approximately 1.7 million people lost their lives (21% of the country's
population), was one of the worst human tragedies of the last century.
Yale University's Cambodian Genocide Program provides a massive collection
of primary source documents, all of which is searchable.
Laos
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 Air America Association
Air
America was a CIA - owned and - operated "air proprietary" during the
Cold War against communism. This is a site intended to "tell their
story".
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The War in Northern Laos, 1954-1973. Prepared by Air Force historians,
Victor B. Anthony and Richard R. Sexton, the 400-page article Shows how the
Joint Chiefs of Staff created a plan for U.S. military intervention in Laos
as early as 1959. (initially released 2006, but with much heavier excisions;
as a result of a successful Freedom of Information Appeal by the National
Security Archive, much more information is available.) For an annoted survey
of this document see item below:
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Force Histories Reveal CIA Role in Laos, CIA Air Strike Missions from US
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 248. Links to
douments, articles 1959-73
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Supporting the "Secret War": CIA Air
Operations in Laos, 1955-1974 (CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence)
Article by William M. Leary,
Professor of History at the University of Georgia, looking at covert role
in Laos of CIA & air America in wider Vietnam context.
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5. Photojournalism, Literature, Film, &
Television
Images
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 Two
sites with valuable images but unfortunately uncredited. (The best site
until recently, "Under Fire: Images from
Vietnam" by Pieceunique is
no longer available)
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Vietnam Interactive
A site for the photographs of E. Kenneth Hoffman.
Hoffman took photographs for the US government. However, he also took over
1500 pictures of Vietnamese civilians. Eighty of Hoffman's Vietnam
photographs can be found under the following categories: 'Military',
'Children', 'Vietnamese People', 'Protest' and 'Shrines'.
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Another Vietnam:
Pictures of the War from the other side.
An excellent exhibition of photographs of the Vietnam War, as seen
through the lens of North Vietnamese photographers, several of which are
included on this site page.
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Vietnam's Most Harrowing Photo
An article
about the famous photograph of Phan Thi Kin Phuc after a napalm attack.
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Photo That Haunted the World BBC article on Kim Phuc, subject of
the famous photograph.
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Propaganda posters
of the war from Vietnam, USSR, China. From the Dutch
International Institute of Social History
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"The Vietnam Experience": an Online Art Exhibition
Navy combat artists recorded many of the navy wartime activities, typically
sharing the same dangers as the sailors and Marines they accompanied. This
is a comprehensive and interesting look at their work.
Cinema
Television
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6. General sites on the period
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 Spartacus Vietnam War site:
an excellent educational site with witness accounts, lists to other sites
(many mentioned here) and timelines. Clearly laid out
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The Wars for Vietnam: 1945 to 1975 Includes
sections on 'The Geneva Peace Accord', 'South Vietnam Under Ngo Dinh
Diem', 'The National Liberation Front', 'December 1961', 'Military Coup',
'Gulf of Tonkin Resolution', 'The War in America', 'The Nixon Years' and
'The Paris Peace Agreement'. The website also has a document section
ranging from NLF secret papers to Richard Nixon's speech to the USA public
on 30th April, 1970 justifying the offensive in Cambodia.
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About The War
Vietnam Veterans of America's Electronic Library: A very extensive set of
links and resources to the Vietnam War and Vietnam Era Resources.
The French period is included as background to the US conflict. This is a
cached version (The original site is no longer available), not all
links are live and there are no descriptors, but the scope of coverage is
so monumental to mean it is still worth a look.!
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Vietnam:
Yesterday and Today Recently updated, this
is a very full range of materials that provides insights into the Vietnam
War under the categories: 'Vietnam War: Fiction', 'Vietnam War:
Non-Fiction', 'Vietnam War: Fiction', 'Vietnam War: Films', 'Vietnam War:
The Women's Experience' and 'The Vietnam War: The Vietnamese Perspective'.
There is also a guide to teaching the topic, a chronology of the Vietnam
War and links to E-Journals and Discussion Lists on the Vietnam War.
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7. 30 Years On
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 America
lost, capitalism won: Vietnam
30 years on Thirty years after Saigon fell, the south has prospered
while the north has lagged. A concise, clear article from the Economist
(April 2005) about the divergent development of north and south.No
longer free access but can be read on a free trial.
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Thirty years after the fall of Saigon, the
celebrations can finally begin With economy rising, Vietnam is at last enjoying the fruits of peace.
Jonathan Watts in Ho Chi Minh City, April 30, 2005,
The
Guardian
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Viet Nam celebrates 1975 Spring Victory
How the official
Vietnam News, the state
news agency, reported the 2005 anniversary
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