Figures
1.1Richard Nixon speaking with soldiers at Dĩ An Base Camp during his only visit to South Vietnam (July 30, 1969)
2.1Richard Nixon points to a map of Southeast Asia during a nationwide broadcast on the Vietnam War (April 1970)
3.1General William Westmoreland, commander of US troops in Vietnam, speaks to the United States Congress (April 28, 1967)
4.1Dr. Benjamin Spock (seated) holding a press conference with leaders of the Spring Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam (April 1967). James Bevel is on the far right
5.1South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Vӑn Thiệu, center, with Prime Minister Trần Thiện Khiêm, right (September 15, 1970)
6.1Lê Duẩn, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Vietnamese Workers’ Party, visiting the crew of an anti-aircraft unit in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1967)
8.1Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai and President Richard Nixon toast each other (February 1972)
9.1A US Air Force team refueling on its way to North Vietnam during Operation Linebacker (October 1972)
10.1Fighting continues in South Vietnam despite the ceasefire (June 5, 1974)
11.1Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihanouk embraces an old woman in Battambang province (December 1953)
12.1Hmong militia during the American Secret War in Laos (1962)
13.1Young people sit in a coffee shop in Hồ Chí Minh City (April 20, 1980)
14.1Afghan Mujahideen who fought against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1980s)
15.1Chairman Mao Zedong greets Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister Ieng Sary while Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot looks on (1970s)
16.1Motorcyclists ride under red flags and banners marking the 65th anniversary of the communist regime in downtown Hanoi (August 31, 2010)
17.1US President Barack Obama speaks at the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative town hall event in Hồ Chí Minh City (May 25, 2016)
18.1A man raises incense to his forehead as he pays his respects at the Vietnam War Memorial near Little Saigon in Westminster, California (April 28, 2005)
19.1American airmen, captured by North Vietnamese forces, are paraded through the streets of Hanoi (July 6, 1966)
20.1Demonstrators call out the USA for violating the Geneva Accords (1954) during a rally in London (July 6, 1967)
21.1Four US Air Force Ranch Hand C-123s spray a communist jungle position with defoliating liquid (September 30, 1965)
22.1A Dong supermarket in Westminster’s Little Saigon with a former South Vietnamese flag and an American flag draped over the front windows (May 12, 2004)
23.1A veteran places joss sticks on graves at an official cemetery in Hanoi, on Vietnam’s National Day for war martyrs and invalids (July 27, 2017)
24.1The crowd lining the route of the dedication parade for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, expressing the “welcome home” the memorial was intended to symbolize (November 1982)
24.2President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan walk along the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Veterans Day, 1988. Observing a popular custom, they leave a note there – addressed to their “young friends” whose names are inscribed on the wall
25.1A Vietnam War veteran holds a sign praising the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The sign reads: “I am a Vietnam veteran. I like the memorial. And if it makes it difficult to send people into battle again … I’ll like it even more” (1983)
26.1Vietnam’s strategic trajectories since 1975. The dots represent the strategic alignment of Vietnam in relation to China and the United States
