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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2017

Michael G. Kort
Michael G. Kort
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Boston University

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The Vietnam War Reexamined , pp. vii - viii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

Contents

  1. List of Maps

  2. Acknowledgments

  3. A Note on Vietnamese Names, Military Ranks, and the Spelling of the Words “Communist” and “Communism”

  4. Abbreviations

  5. Introduction: Understanding the Vietnam War

  6. 1The Vietnam War in History

    1. Orthodoxy

    2. Revisionism

  7. 2Vietnam 101: Origins to 1946

    1. The Vietnamese and China

    2. A New Way of Being Vietnamese and Different Visions of Vietnam

    3. Vietnamese Nationalism

    4. World War II, the August Coup, and 1946

  8. 3Vietnamese Communism, 1920–1959

    1. Ho Chi Minh and the Origins of Vietnamese Communism

    2. The Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League

    3. The Indochinese Communist Party (ICP)

    4. The Vietminh

    5. The Coup of August 1945 and the Events of 1946

    6. The First Indochina War, 1946–1954

    7. Communism in North Vietnam, 1954–1959

  9. 4America Comes to Vietnam, 1954–1963

    1. The Geneva Accords

    2. South Vietnam and Ngo Dinh Diem

    3. The Diem Regime, 1956–1963

    4. The Buddhist Revolt and the End of the Diem Regime

  10. 5The Americanization of the Vietnam War, 1963–1968

    1. South Vietnam, Late 1963 to Early 1965

    2. Johnson and McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Graduated Pressure

    3. Graduated Pressure and Gradual Escalation in Practice

    4. The Tet Offensive

  11. 6The Vietnamization of the War

    1. Vietnamization and the Lost Victory

    2. US Forces: From Search and Destroy to Clear and Hold

    3. The Cambodian Campaign

    4. Arming the ARVN

    5. Lam Son 719

    6. Military Operations and Vietnamization

    7. Pacification

    8. “The War Is Won”

    9. Why an Easter Offensive?

    10. “The Test Passed”

  12. 7The Paris Peace Accords to Black April

    1. The Abandonment of Vietnam

    2. The “Most Murderous Truce”

    3. Weapons and US versus Soviet and Chinese Aid

    4. Black April

  13. Summary and Epilogue

    1. Summary

    2. Epilogue

  14. Suggested Readings

  15. Index

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  • Book: The Vietnam War Reexamined</I>
  • Online publication: 11 December 2017
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