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Vietnam War American History:     more books (101)

Antiwarriors: The Vietnam War and the Battle for America's Hearts and Minds (Vietnam, America in the War Years, V. 1) by Melvin Small, 2002-09-01 Friendly Fire: American Images of the Vietnam War by Katherine Kinney, 2000-11-02 A Personal War in Vietnam (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series) by Robert Flynn, 1989-09-01 Very Crazy, G.I.!: Strange but True Stories of the Vietnam War by Kregg P. Jorgenson, 2001-01-30 American Soldiers: Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, And Vietnam (Modern War Studies) by Peter S. Kindsvatter, 2005-09-14 Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History by Wallace Terry, 1985-07-12 Memories of a Lost War: American Poetic Responses to the Vietnam War (Oxford English Monographs) by Subarno Chattarji, 2001-12-13 The Vietnam War: Revised 2nd Edition (2nd Edition) by Mitchell K. Hall, 2008-06-21 Hard to Forget : An American with the Mobile Guerrilla Force in Vietnam by Steven M. Yedinak, 2009-08-01 Fighting on Two Fronts: African Americans and the Vietnam War by James Westheider, 1999-04-01 The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War by Frederick Downs Jr., 2007-02-17 Vietnam War Almanac (Almanacs of American Wars) by James H. Willbanks, 2010-02 Paper Soldiers: The American Press and the Vietnam War by Clarence R. Wyatt, 1995-03-01 Cyclops in the Jungle: A One-Eyed LRP in Vietnam (Stackpole Military History Series) by David Walker, 2008-11-10

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101. The Vietnam War
     From an american viewpoint, the vietnam war is not well understood. Even though it was part of the american daily life for some  
     http://www.ehistory.com/vietnam/index.cfm
     
     Extractions: eHistory > Vietnam War Search Store Members Articles ... Videos While our Vietnam War section concentrates on the time period from 1960 to 1975, you will find material on the French involvement as well as the events after the fall of Saigon. From an American viewpoint, the Vietnam War is not well understood. Even though it was part of the American daily life for some fifteen years, there is no consensus as to its purpose and result. Some Americans believe that Vietnam was a national policy blunder costing some 58,000 American lives and billions of tax dollars. That it divided the country at a time when it most needed to be unified leaving scars that are yet to be healed. Others believe the war was a noble cause similar to the United Nations effort that kept South Korea free. A brief look at the war itself reveals that it started out rather benignly with the sending of American advisors to assist the South Vietnamese train its growing army. The stated objective was to allow the South Vietnamese Army to resist aggression from the North and to preserve their sovereignty as a democratic nation. As time passed and American administrations changed, the roles changed until it became an American led and financed conflict. The number of American combat troops increased dramatically and a massive air war was executed in an attempt to interdict the escalating resupply of the North Vietnamese divisions in the South. The South Vietnamese received financial aid from a number of nations; and Thailand, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia and others contributed manpower. However, the war was predominately an American show.

102. American Civil War At EHistory.com
     The american Civil war is one of the most researched conflicts in modern history, yet many people still desire more knowledge about it.  
     http://www.ehistory.com/uscw/index.cfm
     
     Extractions: eHistory > American Civil War Search Store Members Articles ... Trivia Game From April 1861 to April 1865, a brutal civil war was fought between the Confederate States of America and the United States of America. The American Civil War is one of the most researched conflicts in modern history, yet many people still desire more knowledge about it. The roots of this tragic conflict go back to the birth of the country. The founding fathers, for all their wisdom, could not solve all the differences between the original thirteen states. The products of their labors, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, failed to totally define the relationship between the Federal Government and the States. The slavery question received no more than a partial and temporary solution. These issues of states' rights festered and the rhetoric inside the Congress grew more heated. Finally, words were no longer enough for some and the nation began to split apart. The secession of eleven Southern States and the unbending position of President Lincoln toward preserving the Union led to the first shot fired on Fort Sumter in 1861. The Rubicon had been crossed. The next four years can only be described as an intensely fought conflict between two groups of Americans, each believing their cause was just. Over

103. CNN.com - Vietnam Marks 25th Anniversary Of The End Of 'American War' With Palac
     http://www.cnn.com/2000/ASIANOW/southeast/04/29/vietnam.waranniversary.02/index.

104. The Vietnam War
     Even today, many americans still ask whether the american effort in vietnam was a sin, a blunder, a necessary war, or a noble cause, or an idealistic  
     http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/vietnam/index.cfm
     
     Extractions: Back to Modules Learn About the Vietnam War Between 1945 and 1954, the Vietnamese waged an anti-colonial war against France, which received $2.6 billion in financial support from the United States. The French defeat at the Dien Bien Phu was followed by a peace conference in Geneva, in which Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam received their independence and Vietnam was temporarily divided between an anti-Communist South and a Communist North. In 1956, South Vietnam, with American backing, refused to hold the unification elections. By 1958, Communist-led guerrillas known as the Viet Cong had begun to battle the South Vietnamese government. From 1968 to 1973 efforts were made to end the conflict through diplomacy. In January 1973, an agreement reached and U.S. forces were withdrawn from Vietnam and U.S. prisoners of war were released. In April 1975, South Vietnam surrendered to the North and Vietnam was reunited CONSEQUENCES: 1. The Vietnam War cost the United States 58,000 lives and 350,000 casualties. It also resulted in between one and two million Vietnamese deaths.

105. Home
     Includes items from the U.S. Revolutionary war, Civil war, Indian wars, Spanishamerican war, WWI, WWII, Korea, and vietnam.  
     http://www.tenmilecreekantiques.com
     
     Extractions: Home About us and TCA Policies Catalog: Battle Relics Catalog: Bayonets #1 ... Catalog: Photographs Home Welcome to Tenmile Creek Antiques ! Your source for Militaria and other fine Antiques and Collectables. TCA wants to buy your militaria and other collectables!!! Contact Tenmile Creek Antiques at: TENMILE@peoplepc.com At Right: Pennsylvania National Guard Officer's Coat I.D.'ed to Lt. Col. Frank Counell inside left breast pocket. The Coat was manufactured by Jacob Reed's Sons Philadelphia, PA. This post C.W. coat is in excellent condition with no mothing or other damage. Price: $400.00 This Week's Featured Item!!! C.W. M-1840 Artillery Saber Ames This is an all original M-1840 Artillery Saber which is marked on the ricasso:"U.S. (1)864". The left ricasso is blank and may have had the Ames marking worn off or it may never have been marked. The remainder of the saber has all of the Ames characteristics. Full length photo Ricasso photo Blade tip Price: Sold WW2 German K98 Slings and Frogs are here! TCA has those coveted leather accessorys for the K98 Rifle and it's bayonet! Various markings and styles all are 100% WW2 manufactured. All are in good to very good usable condition and no oil soaking or dry rot.

106. CIA And The Vietnam Policymakers: Three Episodes 1962-1968
     Evaluates the role of american intelligence in the decision to escalate the american role in the vietnam conflict, one of the actual wars fought by americans during the Cold war. Covers the period from 1961 to 1968.  
     http://www.cia.gov/csi/books/vietnam/index.html

107. Personal Legacy: The Healing Of A Nation
     vietnam VETERANS MEMORIAL. A joint exhibition of the National Museum of american history Smithsonian Institution and National Park Service Department of the  
     http://photo2.si.edu/legacy/legacy.html
     
     Extractions: Department of the Interior V isitors began leaving tokens of remembrance at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982, while it was still under construction. Flags and flowers historically have decorated veterans' monuments, but the presence of many other mementos is unique to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The first, a Purple Heart, was thrown by a Vietnam veteran into the wet cement of the Memorial's foundation. Since then, visitors from at home and abroad have left more than 25,000 keepsakes at the Memorial, collected daily by National Park Service rangers. Each has its own story, often known only to the donor. This collection of messages and gifts from the heart was created by relatives, former comrades-in-arms, friends, neighbors, and members of civic and fraternal organizations. It expresses the love, grief, and pain they associate with the 58,220 names on the Memorial's 140 black granite panels. This unsolicited outpouring occurs year round, particularly at Christmas, Memorial Day, July 4th, and Veterans Day. The gifts also commemorate birthdays of dead and missing veterans and other days of personal importance. This selection of remembrances provides us an opportunity to ponder the continuing impact of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the generation that lived through that conflict.

108. What I Can Do - I Will -
     A tribute to Korean and vietnam war POW/MIA/KIA, but dedicated to all american veterans.  
     http://www.faraway-soclose.org/
     
     Extractions: The name I received in response to my request was James Arthur Harwood , a Sergeant in the US Army (5th Special Forces) who went Missing In Action in South Vietnam on 15 January 1971. There was another man lost in the same incident, a First Lieutenant by the name of Gerald Francis Kinsman ; I decided to adopt him too. I built remembrance pages for both the men on my 'have fun, catch all' website, that, amongst other things, included cyber pet adoptions and personal photos. Later on that year, I decided to create a site just for the guys. While I added to the site on occasion, it was not large, and I thought that with those two men, "that was that." Wrong. Around January or February of 1999, I began to think about the POW/MIA issue some more, and decided to see if there were any women I could adopt. I was informed that there was one, a civilian (missionary) surgeon named Dr. Eleanor Ardel Vietti

109. Frontline: Give War A Chance
     A PBS Frontline special which first aired on 511-99. Focus is on the use of american military power to advance foreign policy goals in a post Cold war era. The program draws substantially on our vietnam experience.  
     http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/military/
     
     Extractions: var loc = "../../"; "Give War a Chance" is the story of two American leaders whose lives and experiences reflect the Vietnam generation's conflicting views about the use of America's military might. It is the story of Richard Holbrooke, U.N. Ambassador-nominee, architect of the 1995 Bosnian peace accords, and ret. Admiral Leighton "Snuffy" Smith, a Vietnam war hero who became NATO's commander in Bosnia and whose mission was to enforce the Bosnia peace. Each man spent his formative years in Vietnam, butsome thirty years laterthe Balkans crisis brought them into direct conflict over the role and responsibilities of today's military in securing and maintaining global peace.

110. Bring Them Home
     Poetry dedicated to american POW/MIAs from the vietnam war.  
     http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/bring_them_home

111. Vietnam Introduction
     Historical Narratives. B1 vietnam Online The american Experience. B2 The Wars for vietnam Overview. B3 history Channel Classroom. B4 vietnam The Asia Society.  
     http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/vietintro.htm
     
     Extractions: The main objective of this Spartacus Educational website is to help students to carry out research into the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War Research section includes a series of possible investigations. It is hoped that people will use the email facility to submit project ideas and websites that could be added to this list. The places where you can obtain information about the Vietnam War on the Internet have been organised into the following categories:

112. Spartacus Educational - Home Page
     Russia 18601945 USA 1840-1960 Germany 1900-45 The Medieval World. Nazi Germany american Civil war. McCarthyism vietnam war Emancipation of Women. British Art.  
     http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/
     
     Extractions: To receive your free copy every week enter your email address below. FREE Education Newsletters - choose below... Teaching History Online Education on the Internet Email: Let keep Ahead .com bring you the world by email The President of Good and Evil Open Debate on the Kennedy Assassination As a result of being swamped by spam I am no longer able to use

113. Asian-Nation : Asian American History, Demographics, & Issues :: Viet Nam -- Ear
     divided in half in 1600 after numerous civil wars. Legend’’ AsianNation The Landscape of Asian America. http//www.asian-nation.org/vietnam-history.shtml  
     http://www.asian-nation.org/vietnam-history.shtml
     
     Extractions: Article and discussion on the historical origins of the land and nation of Viet Nam, from its early legends through the end of its imperial dynasties. Also includes a description on the historical origins and linguistic characteristics of the Vietnamese language. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to maximize your experience and enjoyment at Asian-Nation.

114. About The War
     Some vietnamese Perspectives on the american war and Its Museums or Art Museums vietnam Veterans Organizations Sites on the Indochina war Presidential Libraries  
     http://www.vva.org/about_the_war.htm
     
     Extractions: About The War Vietnam Veterans of America is not responsible for information posted on other web sites. The diverse collection of links below is provided only as a courtesy to our visitors. The contents of these web sites may not reflect the views of Vietnam Veterans of America, which does not endorse the sites for which links appear below. We offer them only for your additional information, review, and research. If any site to which we have linked does not wish to be be included in the collection below, please let us know and we will remove the link. We welcome any comments or suggestions for additional links or news about dead links.

115. Study Guide To The Vietnam War
     Because of his beliefs, Vann is a perfect symbol of the frustrations and contradictions America encountered there. This is vietnam war history from a unique  
     http://www.refstar.com/vietnam/

116. Learn History - Vietnam War Revision - US Tactics
     Learn history. of success on the ground, the US tried to win the war from the air with dropping millions of tons of High Explosive bombs on North vietnam and Ho  
     http://www.learnhistory.org.uk/vietnam/ustactics.htm
     
     Extractions: Learn History Home Topics Romans Medieval Indians American West ... Cold War Interact Contact Links Vietnam War Revision Key Question: How did the USA wage war against Vietnam? Reasons for War American Tactics Vietnamese Tactics Opposition to war ... Why USA lost US Tactics Working closely with the Army of the South Vietnamese ( Arvin ’s) the Americans tried to make it difficult for the Viet Cong (Vietnamese Communists – ‘Victor Charlie’) to gain support from the South Vietnamese peasants. Strategic Hamlet ’ attempted to place peasants in fortified villages at night, where they couldn’t be ‘infiltrated’. This backfired badly. It was very unpopular with the peasants who resented being so far away from their rice fields and ancestors. VC demolished many of the fortified villages anyway. The Air War – Frustrated by lack of success on the ground, the US tried to win the war from the air. Operation Rolling Thunder that began with dropping millions of tons of High Explosive bombs on North Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh trail.

117. American Writers
     Harriet Beecher Stowe • James Baldwin • vietnam the american Writers Journey through history and american  
     http://www.americanwriters.org/
     
     Extractions: Select a writer William Bradford Benjamin Franklin Thomas Paine Thomas Jefferson James Madison James Fenimore Cooper Sojourner Truth Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Elizabeth Cady Stanton Nathaniel Hawthorne Frederick Douglass Harriet Beecher Stowe Mary Chesnut Abraham Lincoln Mark Twain Willa Cather Black Elk Booker T. Washington W.E.B Du Bois Henry Adams Edith Wharton Upton Sinclair Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Dreiser Will Rogers Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston H.L. Mencken F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway John Steinbeck William Faulkner Ayn Rand Ernie Pyle Whittaker Chambers Walter Lippmann Jack Kerouac James Baldwin Betty Friedan Russell Kirk William F. Buckley David Halberstam Neil Sheehan Select a work Mayflower Compact Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Common Sense Declaration of Independence U.S. Constitution Journals of the Expedition Last of the Mohicans Narrative of Sojourner Truth Nature Walden Declaration of Sentiments The Scarlet Letter Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Uncle Tom's Cabin A Diary from Dixie Gettysburg Address The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn O Pioneers!

118. BBC - H2g2 - War And Protest - The US In Vietnam (1969 - 1970)
     splendidly . This was the first time that the government of North vietnam publicly acknowledged the american antiwar movement. Dong s  
     http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A715042
     
     Extractions: Dwight D Eisenhower War In 'Operation Dewey Canyon', elements of the Third Marine Division based in the Da Krong valley invaded Laos. This was to be the last major operation by US Marines in Vietnam. On 23 February, 1969, a coordinated offensive by the NLF/PALF started. A total of 110 targets in South Vietnam, including the City of Saigon, were attacked. Two days later, 36 US Marines, camped near the border with North Vietnam, were killed in a raid conducted by the North Vietnamese Army. US troops began offensive strikes in the area of the North Vietnamese border on 15 March, 1969.

119. History Of The Medal Of Honor
     America s Medal of Honor Recipients Heroes of Our Time 239 Men of the vietnam war Awarded the Medal of Honor 1964 Schiffer Military history, Atglen, PA 19310.  
     http://www.mishalov.com/Medal_of_Honor.html
     
     Extractions: 11 September 2001 We Will Not Forget Medal of Honor What is the Medal of Honor? The Medal of Honor is awarded by the President in the name of Congress to a person who, while a member of the military, distinguishes himself or herself conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life or her life above and beyond the call of duty while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States; while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force; or while serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party. The deed performed must have been one of personal bravery or self-sacrifice so conspicuous as to clearly distinguish the individual above his comrades and must have involved risk of life. Incontestable proof of the performance of the service will be exacted and each recommendation for the award of this decoration will be considered on the standard of extraordinary merit. Extracted from: Chapter 3-6, Army Regulation 600-8-22 (Military Awards) dated 25 February 1995.

120. Thousands Of Canadians, Including A
     Legion (the equivalent of the american Legion or are families whose sons survived the war, but were This article appeared in. vietnam Magazine (Perspectives). By  
     http://www.vwam.com/vets/canadians.html
     
     Extractions: Thousands of Canadians, including a Medal of Honor winner, served with the U.S. military in Vietnam. Although not directly involved in the Vietnam War, Canada was part of the International Control Commission (ICC) set up by the Geneva Conference in 1954. "Unlike Hungry and Poland, which supported North Vietnam," writes Colonel Harry G. Summers, Jr., in his Vietnam War Almanac, "Canada attempted to remain impartial. However, it provided economic assistance to South Vietnam." As a result of the Paris Peace Accords of 1973, the ICC was superseded by the International Commission of Control and Supervision (ICCS). Canada and Poland remained members, but India was replaced by Indonesia. "When it became apparent that the North Vietnamese had no intention of living up to the accords," says Summers, "Canada withdrew on July 31, 1973 and was replaced by Iran." Although pressured by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson to become part of the "Free World Military Forces" (Australia, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, the Republic of the Philippines, Taiwan and the Kingdom of Thailand) which provided combat troops to aid South Vietnam, the Canadian cabinet believed that because of its ICC membership Canada had to remain its impartiality. But while Canada as a nation was not involved, Canadians themselves formed the largest foreign contingent in the U.S. military during the Vietnam era. Some estimate that their numbers far suppressed the more than 30,000 Americans draft dodgers who fled to Canada to avoid military service during the war. While exact numbers are impossible to obtain, from my work as a military historian with the Canadian War Museum, I estimate that of the many thousands who served in the U.S. Vietnam-era military, some 12,00 Canadians actually served in Vietnam itself.

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