Presenting new perspectives on the Vietnam War, its global repercussions, and its role in modern history, this volume reveals "America's War" as an international event that reverberated worldwide. The essays address political, military, and diplomatic issues and the cultural and intellectual consequences of "Vietnam." They compare the Vietnam War to other major conflicts in world history. "America's War" is depicted as a global event whose origins and characteristics deserve an interdisciplinary treatment.
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"...America, the Vietnam War, and the World offers a fresh, albeit provocative, perspective of the Vietnam War." History: Review of New Books
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Presenting new perspectives on the Vietnam War, its global repercussions, and its role in modern history, this volume reveals "America's War" as an international event that reverberated all over the world. The essays address political, military, and diplomatic issues and the cultural and intellectual consequences of "Vietnam." They compare the Vietnam War to other major conflicts in world history. "America's War" is depicted as a global event whose origins and characteristics deserve an interdisciplinary treatment.
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The available accounts of the exchanges among the leaders of the grand alliance against the Axis powers in World War II make it clear that Franklin D. Roosevelt rarely passed up a chance to debunk European-style colonialism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
peripheral war, transatlantic bargain, world peace movement, central war, monetary field, war termination, more flags, domino theory, longest war Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, South Vietnam, Cold War, Soviet Union, North Vietnamese, West Germany, Department of State, Great Britain, Federal Republic, Lyndon Johnson, Peace Council, Zhou Enlai, New Zealand, North America, State Department, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, White House, American Revolution, West Berlin, Far East, Mao Zedong, Neue Wache, President Johnson, Dean Rusk New!
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The available accounts of the exchanges among the leaders of the grand alliance against the Axis powers in World War II make it clear that Franklin D. Roosevelt rarely passed up a chance to debunk European-style colonialism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
peripheral war, transatlantic bargain, world peace movement, central war, monetary field, war termination, more flags, domino theory, longest war Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, South Vietnam, Cold War, Soviet Union, North Vietnamese, West Germany, Department of State, Great Britain, Federal Republic, Lyndon Johnson, Peace Council, Zhou Enlai, New Zealand, North America, State Department, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, White House, American Revolution, West Berlin, Far East, Mao Zedong, Neue Wache, President Johnson, Dean Rusk New!
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- Pay Any Price: Lyndon Johnson and the Wars for Vietnam by Lloyd C. Gardner on 7 pages
- America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 with Poster (4th Edition) by George C. Herring on 7 pages
- Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War by Brian VanDeMark in Front Matter, page 98, and page 284
- The Secret Diplomacy of the Vietnam War: The Negotiating Volumes of the Pentagon Papers by George C. Herring in Front Matter, page 101, and page 272
- The Soviet Union and the Vietnam War by Ilya V. Gaiduk in Front Matter, page 79, and page 237
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- The Vietnam War Files: Uncovering the Secret History of Nixon-Era Strategy (Modern War Studies) by Jeffrey Kimball in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Taking Back the Academy!: History of Activism, History as Activism by Jim Downs on page 51
- Reinterpreting the End of the Cold War: Issues, Interpretations, Periodizations (Cold War History) by Silvio Pons on page 49
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