Curated by
ACT
This essay from The Oxford Companion to American Military History goes into the causes of the Vietnam War and shows how the United States became embroiled incrementally from the 1950s up to 1965. An interesting section explains how the personalities and aims of presidents from Truman to Johnson affected U.S. involvement.
3 Views
1 Download
Additional Tags
counterinsurgency war, military advisers, communist, dienbienphu, domino theory, eisenhower and the vietnam war, ho chi minh, johnson and the vietnam war, kennedy and the vietnam war, students for a democratic society, tonkin gulf resolution, vietminh, escalation of the vietnam war, protest against the vietnam war, vietnam war
Classroom Considerations
- Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
- This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information