Cain America's Vietnam War and Its French Connection

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-315-45916-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 270 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Advances in American History

That America was drawn into the Vietnam War by the French has been recognized, but rarely explored. This book analyzes the years from 1945 with the French military reconquest of Vietnam until 1963 with the execution of the French-endorsed dictator, Ngo Dinh Diem, demonstrating how the US should not have followed the French into Vietnam. It shows how the Korean War triggered the flow of American military hardware and finances to underpin France’s war against the Marxist-oriented Vietnam Republic led by Ho Chi Minh.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cain, Frank

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Years of the Second World War and After

2. The French Reoccupation of Indochina

3. Events Leading to the First Franco-Vietnamese War

4. Moving Towards War

5. The French Recapture of Hanoi and the Flight of DRV

6. French Imperialism Gives Way to Puppet State

7. The Loss of China and the US Forward Move in Vietnam

8. Extending America’s Commitment to Vietnam

9. Vietnam and the US Responses at the End of the Truman Administration

10. The Early Eisenhower Years

Über Autor(innen)

Frank Cain is a Visiting Fellow at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales in Canberra.