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	Vietnam War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The First Indochina War may be said to have begun in 1946 with the writing of the Vietnamese constitution and to have ended in 1954 with the Geneva Peace Accord.The American involvement in the conflict is less distinct.
		The first draft lottery since World War II in the United States was held on 1 December 1969, and was met with large protests and a great deal of controversy; statistical analysis indicated that the methodology of the lotteries unintentionally disadvantaged men with late year birthdays.
		Vietnam War: the most commonly-used term in English, it implies that the location was chiefly within the borders of the nation (which is disputed, as many regard the scope as including at least Cambodia); it sidesteps the issue of the lack of an American declaration of war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Second_Indochina_War (10714 words)

	BOATPEOPLE: SECOND INDOCHINA WAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		From the perspective of the United States, the Vietnam war was a war fought 'for the minds of men.' China and Russia was spreading Communism ideology in Indochina, and the United States wanted to prevent the total spread of it in Asia.
		However, the war came to represent the spectacular failure of American foreign policy and firepower in the region.
		This precipitated the second Indochina war in 1960 between Communist-led nationalists in the North and the pro-American, anti-Communist Vietnamese in the South.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /boatpeople/indochina/indochina-4.html (631 words)

	Vietnam War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The war ended in 1975 with a communist victory and the unification of the country under a government dominated by the Communist Party of Vietnam.
		The Vietnam War is classed as the second war of the Indochina Wars and was in many ways a direct successor to the French Indochina War in which the French, with the financial and logistical support of the United States, fought a losing effort to maintain control of her former colony of French Indochina.
		U.S. involvement in the war followed a strategy of escalation, using the analogy of an escalator rising slowly but steadily to increase war pressure on the enemy, as opposed to the traditional declaration of war with the usual massive attack using all available means to secure victory.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/V/Vietnam-War.htm (14498 words)

	"Vietnam History"
		A second attack was supposed to have taken place on August 4, although Vo Nguyen Giap the DRV's leading military figure at the time and Johnson's Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara have recently concluded that no second attack ever took place.
		One of the greatest ironies in a war rich in ironies was that Washington had also moved toward a limited war in Vietnam.
		The Vietnam War did have a major impact on everyday life in America and the Johnson administration was forced to consider the domestic consequences of its decisions everyday.
	4dw.net /jqueen/history.html (2976 words)

	Vietnam War -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Vietnam War was a (The waging of armed conflict against an enemy) war fought roughly from 1957 to 1975 after the North Vietnamese government secretly agreed to begin involvement in South (A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea; achieved independence from France in 1945) Vietnam.
		Indeed, since the war in Laos had moved far beyond the insurgency stage, Vietnam was the only place in the world where the Administration faced a well-developed Communist effort to topple a pro-Western government with an externally-aided pro-communist insurgency.
		Many Americans opposed the war on moral grounds, seeing it as a destructive war against Vietnamese independence, or as intervention in a foreign civil war; others opposed it because they felt it lacked clear objectives and appeared to be unwinnable.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/vi/vietnam_war.htm (9978 words)

	The History Guy: The War List
		In this example, the wars in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos are all considered to be part of the larger Second Indochina War.
		These wars are placed in the Anglo-French category as an illustration of their placement in the pattern of wars between those two countries.
		Parts of the war saw the Muslims and Croatians cooperate against their common foe, but from 1993-1994, Bosnia saw a three-way war when the Muslims and Croats battled each other as well as fighting the Serbs.
	www.historyguy.com /War_list.html (4852 words)

	Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series/ Vietnam / Glossary
		At the height of the Second Indochina War (q.v.
		Formed as the result of a series of increasingly structured nonaligned conferences, the first of which met at Belgrade, Yugoslavia in September 1961, the NAM's purpose is to insure the sovereignty and territorial integrity of nonaligned nations.
		It proclaimed the independence of Vietnam on September 2, 1945, and led the anti-French guerrilla war that followed, until the victory at Dien Bien Phu brought the conflict to an end.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/vietnam/vn_glos.html (2226 words)

	AII POW-MIA Chronology of US Hostile Engagements Post-Vietnam
		The Second Indochina War :: Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia - 1959 - 1975
		The war raged and expanded, drifitng into and overwhleming neighboring Laos and Cambodia until a Peace Agreement was hammered out and a cease-fire esatblished in January 1973.
		It was abrogated immediately and the region remained engulfed in conflict and intermittent conflagration until the North invaded the South 30 April 1975, and with it the end of the Second IndoChina War.
	www.aiipowmia.com /other/hostilechron.html (4275 words)

	BOATPEOPLE: SECOND INDOCHINA WAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		They feared reprisals by the Hanoi Communist regime, and the Pathet Lao's retaliation against former supporters of the U.S. Throughout the war, American foreign policy in Indochina was defined by heavy bombing and the use of defoliants in those countries.
		At the end of the Vietnam war, more than 5 million lives were lost; two million North and South Vietnamese soldiers, and three and one-half million civilians.
		After the war, the U.S. imposed an economic embargo on Vietnam.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /boatpeople/indochina/indochina-5.html (671 words)

	HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE U.S. POWS IN COMMUNIST CUSTODY
		The war that Americans call the Vietnam War is really, from the stand-point of history, the Second Indochina War.
		In the years after World Wars I and II, the Soviet regime, and later their North Korean cohorts, held American soldiers and citizens captive in the aftermath of these wars.
		This episode in the history of World War I illustrates succinctly the major problems which still affect attempts to account for and ensure the repatriation of U.S. military personnel captured by Communist regimes in the aftermath of World War II, the Korean War, and the Second Indochina War.
	www.geocities.com /pentagon/2527/jhhist.html (1242 words)

	ABOUT DEGAR
		The Degar race was the first peoples to inhabit this region and we are the rightful owners of the land the world knew as the Central Highlands of Vietnam during the Second Indochina War.
		It was after these wars that the Vietnamese invaders began extensive forced assimilation policies and genocidal practices against our people.
		As the denizens of this once peaceful land, we the Degar people were recruited and attacked by both sides of the Viet Minh and the French in the first Indochina war.
	www.montagnard-foundation.org /about-degar.html (1499 words)

	Battlefield:Vietnam \| History
		The Communist Party believed that it would prevail in a protracted war because the United States had no clearly defined objectives, and therefore, the country would eventually tire of the war and demand a negotiated settlement.
		The Vietnam War did have a major impact on everyday life in America, and the Johnson administration was forced to consider domestic consequences of its decisions every day.
		Brigham is the author of numerous books and essays on the Vietnam War, including Guerrilla Diplomacy: The NLF's Foreign Relations and the Vietnam War (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998) and ARVN: A History of America's Ally in Vietnam (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999).
	www.pbs.org /battlefieldvietnam/history (3160 words)

	Vietnam War Resources in the MSU Libraries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wars for Vietnam, 1945-1975 --"developed around the course materials for Robert Brigham's senior seminar on the Viet Nam War at Vassar College, offers students an opportunity to examine some of those sources, including numerous official documents.
		Head, William P. War From Above The Clouds B-52 Operations during the Second Indochina War and the Effects of the Air War on Theory and Doctrine.
		Secretaries of War and Secretaries of the Army: Portraits and Biographical Sketches.
	www.lib.msu.edu /unsworth/genhist/vietnam.htm (5343 words)

	National Alliance of Families - Issue Overview
		The war widely known as the Vietnam War was the second war fought by Communist forces in Vietnam and in Southeast Asia.
		In the final analysis, however, this war was a political and moral defeat for the United States.
		As indicated in Article 21 of the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring the Peace in Vietnam signed in Paris on January 27, 1973, the United States undertakes this participation in accordance with its traditional policies.
	www.nationalalliance.org /vietnam/ovrvw07.htm (3173 words)

	Cambodia - The Second Indochina War, 1954-75
		In the uneasy peace between the First Indochina War and the Second Indochina War, a number of incidents occurred on Cambodia's border with South Vietnam.
		The apex of the triangle passed just north of Odongk, the former royal capital that was to be the scene of heavy fighting later in the war.
		Even this retrenchment, however, turned out to be impractical, as successive engagements failed to dislodge the enemy troops south of the new defense line, and FANK increasingly found itself hard pressed from that direction as well.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-2223.html (3304 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Indochina 1971; an American Friends Service Committee white paper on requirements for peace in Southeast Asia
		Indochina economic reconstruction and international cooperation : papers and proceedings of a symposium held at the Institute of Developing Economies on November 13-14, 1991
		Second Chance : The United States and Indochina in the 1990s
	www.khmernet.com /books/amazon/indochina_book14.html (338 words)

	HISTORY, Laos Tourist Information and Travel Guide at InfoHub.com
		By the early 1950s, the First Indochina War had engulfed the region.
		After the 1954 Geneva Accords, which the US did not sign, strengthening the anti-communist governments of Indochina became a priority for President Dwight Eisenhower's administration.
		Despite the 1962 accords of a second Geneva conference, Laos was being drawn increasingly into the Second Indochina War, as North Vietnam and the United States undermined the country's neutrality in the pursuit of their agendas in Vietnam.
	www.infohub.com /Destinations/Asia/Laos/67836.htm (624 words)

	Cohen, Vital Link (abstract) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		War from above the Clouds: B-52 Operations during the Second Indochina War and the Effects of the Air War on Theory and Doctrine
		He examines the evolution of this awesome manned strategic weapon in Vietnam to see how the structure of the B-52's originally intended mission altered--if at all--the theories of airpower first put forward by Giulio Douhet and William "Billy" Mitchell.
		Head contends that the lack of a definitive test for the theory that airpower decisively affects the outcome of war continued during the Vietnam or Second Indochina War.
	www.au.af.mil /au/aul/aupress/catalog/fairchild_papers/Head_P23.htm (166 words)

	Vietnam War Bibliographic Sources
		Beede, Benjamin R. Intervention and Counterinsurgency: An Annotated Bibliography of the Small Wars of the United States, 1898-1984.
		Vietnam War Study Guide (using books) -- "This page is a study guide for those interested in learning about the Vietnam War, using the best resource available: books.
		REF Z 3228.V5 Camp, Norman H. Stress, Strain, and Vietnam: An Annotated Bibliography of Two Decades of Psychiatric and Social Sciences Literature Reflecting the Effect of the War on the American Soldier.
	www.lib.msu.edu /guides/subjects/history/american/genhist/vn/bib.htm (699 words)

	SCENARIO: Second Indochina War - Civilization Fanatics' Forums
		However, the North and Ho Chi Minh has suffered tremendously from the victorious war with the French and their infrastructure is in shambles.
		The second era of the scenario is dominated by the foreign influences of the Vietnam War.
		In 2nd place for coolest war in history is the eastern front in ww2, then roman army era is 3rd.
	forums.civfanatics.com /showthread.php?t=92526 (1683 words)

	History of the Vietnam War - Title Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But this was not Vietnam's first or last war.
		South Vietnam was established after the (First) Indochina War between Vietnamese nationalists and French Colonial forces after the close of the Second World War.
		It will not be an academically rigorous history, but should provide a basic understanding of the war and its background.
	www.ichiban1.org /html/history/history_map.htm (200 words)

	History Guy: The Vietnam War
		The Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), the United States, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, the Philippines and Thailand (also, the non-communist governments of Cambodia and Laos participated in that they were attacked by the North Vietnamese and the local Communist rebels aided by North Vietnam's government).
		This is an excellent web page, though it may take some time to view due to the number of good graphics it contains.
		This will show you a long list of articles on different aspects of the war.
	www.historyguy.com /Vietnam_War.html (383 words)

	Greenwood Publishing Group I1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This book puts American policy in Southeast Asia and the traumatic events of the second Indochina War into the larger perspective of the Cold War.
		Treating harshly some of the orthodoxies that have developed about Vietnam and scathing in its treatment of the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations, it will interest scholars, students, and veterans of the conflict.
		ALAN J. LEVINE is an historian specializing in Russian history, international relations, and World War II.
	info.greenwood.com /books/0275951/0275951243.html (161 words)

	Viet Nam War History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		forces captured the presidential palace in Saigon, ending the Second Indochina War.
		Davidson, Phillip B. Vietnam at War: The History, 1946-1975
		Taylor, Sandra C. Vietnamese Women at War: Fighting for Ho Chi Minh and he Revolution.
	www2.potsdam.edu /mausdc/class/520/vietnam.html (2962 words)

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