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Oct 29, 2009 · The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.
A bipartisan consensus about the means and ends of American foreign policy is generally thought to have been part of the American political environment during the Cold War era. This consensus is also commonly thought to have been a casualty of the Vietnam War, when disagreements arose about the threat of communism, the use of
Oct 1, 2004 · The war in Vietnam in turn influenced the direction taken by the cold war after 1975. The conflict in Vietnam stemmed from the interaction of two major phenomena of the post-World War II era, decolonization—the dissolution of colonial empires—and the cold war.
- George C. Herring
- 2004
The Vietnam War debate and the Cold War consensus. Proctor, Patrick E. Both Presidents Johnson and Nixon used the ideology of military containment of Communism to justify U.S. military intervention in Vietnam. Until 1968, opponents of this intervention attacked the ideology of containment or its application to Vietnam.
highlight the issues involved. The radical interpretation argues that US involvement in Vietnam. the logical outgrowth of America's pursuit of global hegemony during Cold War. Gabriel Kolko, in Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United States, and the Modern Historical Experience, and Thomas J. McCormick,
Based on a large-scale content analysis of newspaper editorials on foreign affairs, this article shows that the Cold War narrative was narrower than conventional accounts suggest, that it did not coalesce until well into the 1950s, and that it began to erode even before the Vietnam War's Americanization in 1965.
The conflict in Vietnam stemmed from the interaction of two major phenomena of the post-World War II era, decolonization?the dissolution of colonial empires?and the cold war. The rise of nation alism in the colonial areas and the weakness of the European powers after the Second World War combined to destroy a colonial system.
