Vietnam: America's disgrace
Many events led up to the Vietnam War. The League for the Independence of Vietnam, generally known as the Viet Minh, was organized in 1941 as a nationalistic party seeking Vietnamese independence from France. On September 2, 1945, less than a month after the Japanese surrendered in World War II, Ho Chi Minh, leader of the Viet Minh, formally declared Vietnamese independence. Not until the mid 1950s did the Viet Minh become openly communist. Fighting broke out between
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www.thehistorynet.com/vietnam/
The website version of Vietnam magazine. Contains articles and other perspectives about the Vietnam War.
Young, Marilyn B. The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990. New York: Harper Collins, 1991; Harper Perennial, 1992.
A book giving equal weight to the Vietnamese and American sides of the War. It covers the First Indochina War, thought the Second and the Third. The book is narrated from the American and foreign point of view, yet this account seems anti-American.
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