The Vietnam War

Summary

The Vietnam War was fought in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam from 1950 to 1973. United States involvement in Vietnam was heaviest from 1965 to 1973. Many Americans did not believe the United States should take part in the war and demonstrated in Anti-Vietnam War protests across the nation.

Bibliography

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Herring, George. America’s Longest War, 4th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2002.

Kaiser, David. American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000.

Kimball, Jeffrey. Nixon’s Vietnam War. Lawrence, Kan: University Press of Kansas, 1998.

Lind, Michael. Vietnam, the Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of America’s Most Disastrous Military Conflict. New York: Free Press, 1999.

McNamara, Robert S. and Brian VanDeMark. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam. New York: Times Books, 1995.