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3 days ago · The Vietnam War (1954–75) was a conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. It was part of a larger regional conflict as well as a manifestation of the Cold War.
May 29, 2024 · The Sympathizer takes on Hollywood’s Vietnam War stories. HBO’s new miniseries centers Vietnamese voices — and reframes the consequences of war.
Jun 19, 2024 · ‘Diplomats at War’ Review: Going Rogue at the Embassy JFK often had tenuous control of his own diplomats. Consider the 1963 assassination of South Vietnam’s President Ngo Dinh Diem.
4 days ago · Diem’s death ushered in a period of political turmoil in South Vietnam, during which the quality of the South-Vietnamese war effort really did deteriorate, and North Vietnam was emboldened to administer the coup de grace by launching an initiative to destroy the South-Vietnamese Army (ARVN).
2 days ago · Their case hangs on the assertion that South Vietnam was actually winning the war in 1961, but the United States failed to appreciate its success and build on it, thus snatching defeat from the jaws of victory – for the revisionists the first of a number of such American ‘lost victories’ in Vietnam.
3 days ago · Why did the Vietnam War start? Was the Vietnam War technically a war? Who won the Vietnam War? How many people died in the Vietnam War? Why is William Westmoreland important?
Jun 20, 2024 · The war in Vietnam and the draft were deeply unpopular with the US public, and the Army was facing a crisis that leaders called “the problem of race” (1). This issue of race relations is what Dr. Beth Bailey—a distinguished professor of history and director of the Center for Military, War, and Society Studies at the University of Kansas ...
