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| PART I: THE VIETNAMESE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE THROUGH WORLD WAR II |
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Vietnam's Revolutionary Tradition |
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4 | (14) |
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First Appeal to the United States (June 18, 1919) |
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18 | (2) |
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``The Path Which Led Me to Leninism'' (1960) |
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20 | (2) |
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Founding of the Doc-Lap Dong Minh Hoi (June 1941) |
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22 | (2) |
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Imperial Abdication (August 1945) |
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24 | (2) |
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Vietnam Declaration of Independence (September 2, 1945) |
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26 | (6) |
| PART II: THE WAR WITH FRANCE |
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31 | (1) |
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The Franco-Vietnamese War, 1945--1954: Origins of US Involvement |
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32 | (9) |
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The French Return: Two State Department Views (April 1945) |
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41 | (5) |
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Vietnam's Second Appeal to the United States: Cable to President Harry S. Truman (October 17, 1945) |
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46 | (1) |
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Franco-Vietnamese Agreement on the Independence of Vietnam (March 1946) |
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47 | (2) |
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Sponsoring French Colonialism: The State Department Decision (May 1950) |
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49 | (1) |
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Taking Up the White Man's Burden: Two American Views (1954) |
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50 | (3) |
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Vietnamese Victory: Dien Bien Phu, 1954 |
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53 | (13) |
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| PART III: GENEVA---THE PEACE SUBVERTED |
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65 | (1) |
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The Geneva Cease-Fire (July 20, 1954) |
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66 | (8) |
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Final Declaration of the Geneva Conference (July 21, 1954) |
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74 | (2) |
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Close of the Geneva Conference (July 21, 1954) |
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76 | (5) |
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Cold War Combat: Tactics After Geneva |
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81 | (16) |
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Heroin and Politics in Saigon |
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97 | (6) |
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Elections and Reunification Denied (1955) |
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103 | (2) |
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``Vietnam's Democratic One-Man Rule'' |
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105 | (8) |
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A Flawed Commitment: US Endorsement, with Conditions, of Ngo Dinh Diem (1954) |
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113 | (2) |
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Genesis of US Support for the Regime of Ngo Dinh Diem |
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115 | (20) |
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| PART IV: THE REVOLUTION AGAINST DIEM |
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133 | (2) |
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Behind the Miracle of South Vietnam |
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135 | (21) |
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The Legal Underpinnings of Government Terror in South Vietnam: Law 10/59 |
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156 | (5) |
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Washington's Man in Saigon: American Commitment to South Vietnam (1961) |
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161 | (4) |
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``No Other Road to Take'': Origin of the National Liberation Front in Ben Tre |
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165 | (23) |
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Founding Program of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam |
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188 | (5) |
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``The Political and Military Line of Our Party'' |
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193 | (8) |
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US National Security Memorandum: Policy-Planning for Counterinsurgency (1962) |
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201 | (4) |
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The Rise and Fall of ``Counterinsurgency,'' 1961--1964 |
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205 | (11) |
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The Buddhist Crisis of 1963: The View from Washington from The Pentagon Papers |
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216 | (9) |
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Diem Must Go: The US Embassy in Saigon Orchestrates a Coup d'Etat (1963) |
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225 | (16) |
| PART V: THE AMERICANIZATION OF THE WAR |
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239 | (2) |
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The Blueprint for an Americanized War (1963--1964) from The Pentagon Papers |
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241 | (7) |
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The Gulf of Tonkin ``Incidents'' and Resolution (1964) |
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248 | (7) |
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Rationale for Escalation: The US Government ``White Paper'' of 1965 |
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255 | (13) |
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Refutation of the ``White Paper'' |
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268 | (6) |
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``Defeat American Escalation'': Report to the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1965) |
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274 | (2) |
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Negotiations? Hanoi's Four Points (April 8, 1965) and Washington's Fourteen Points (January 7, 1966) |
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276 | (3) |
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US Crisis Managers Choose from Among Diminishing Options (1965) |
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279 | (22) |
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| PART VI: THE MOVEMENT AGAINST THE WAR |
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295 | (6) |
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``We Won't Go'' by the May 2nd Movement |
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301 | (1) |
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302 | (1) |
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Two Poems: ``Afterthoughts on a Napalm-Drop on Jungle Villages near Haiphong'' and ``Truth Blazes Even in Little Children's Hearts'' |
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303 | (2) |
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``Declaration of Conscience Against the War in Vietnam'' (1965) |
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305 | (1) |
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``We Refuse---October 16'' (1967) |
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306 | (2) |
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``A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority'' (1967) |
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308 | (2) |
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``Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam'' (April 1967) |
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310 | (9) |
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Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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``Deserters' Manifesto'' (1968) |
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319 | (2) |
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``Constraints of the Negro Civil Rights Movement on American Military Effectiveness'' (1970) |
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321 | (5) |
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``The Collapse of the Armed Forces'' (1971) |
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326 | (16) |
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| PART VII: THE DECISIVE YEAR: 1968 |
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339 | (3) |
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``The Year of Decision---1968'' |
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342 | (17) |
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``Remembering the Tet Offensive'' |
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359 | (19) |
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The Aftermath of Tet from The Pentagon Papers |
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378 | (23) |
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``Peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia'': Address to the Nation (March 31, 1968) |
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401 | (9) |
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410 | (20) |
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| PART VIII: NIXON'S WAR AND THE AFTERMATH |
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427 | (3) |
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Negotiating Positions of 1969: The NLF's Ten Points (May 8) and Nixon's Eight Points (May 14) |
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430 | (4) |
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``Vietnamization'' (November 3, 1969) |
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434 | (11) |
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Explaining the ``Secret War'' in Laos (March 6, 1970) |
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445 | (6) |
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Rationale for the Invasion of Cambodia (April 30, 1970) |
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451 | (4) |
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Vietnam Veterans Against the War: Testimony to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee (April 22, 1971) |
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455 | (7) |
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The Ecological Impact of the Air War |
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462 | (9) |
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Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam: The Paris Peace Accords (January 27, 1973) |
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471 | (16) |
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US Promise of Postwar Reconstruction: Letter to DRV Prime Minister Pham Van Dong (February 1, 1973) |
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487 | (2) |
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War Powers Resolution (1973) |
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489 | (6) |
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The ``Great Spring Victory: An Account of the Liberation of South Vietnam'' (1975) |
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495 | (5) |
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500 | (15) |
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Epilogue: ``The Vietnam War in American Memory'' |
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515 | (30) |
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| Appendices |
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523 | (10) |
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533 | (6) |
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539 | (6) |
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