The Korean War and the Vietnam War: People, Politics, and Power (America at War)

Introduction 8 Chapter 1: Precursors to the Korean War 17 Korea Occupied and Divided, 1910–50 18 Chapter 2: Korea at War, 1950–53 26 Preparations for War 26 Invasion and Counterinvasion, 1950–51 27 Talking and Fighting, 1951–53 38 Chapter 3: Political Leaders of the Korean War 52 North Korea 52 South Korea 55 United States 66 Soviet Union and China 71 Chapter 4: Military Commanders of the Korean War 74 Chung Il Kwon 74 Peng Dehuai 75 Douglas MacArthur 75 Walton H. Walker 76 Edward M. Almond 77 James Alward Van Fleet 78 Matthew B. Ridgway 78 Mark Clark 79 Chapter 5: Korea Still Divided, 1953– 80 South Korea Modernized 80 North Korea Isolated 81 Chapter 6: Korea and the Cold War 91 Chapter 7: Precursors to the Vietnam War 96 Vietnam Colonized and Divided, 1897–1955 96 Chapter 8: The American War, 1955–74 105 The Diem Regime and the Viet Cong 105 The U.S. Role Grows 108 The Conflict Deepens 111 The Gulf of Tonkin 114 The United States Enters the War 116 Firepower Comes to Naught 118 Tet Brings the War Home 124 De-escalation, Negotiation, and Vietnamization 129 The United States Negotiates a Withdrawal 133 The Fall of South Vietnam 144 Chapter 9: Political Leaders of the Vietnam War 147 French Indochina 147 North Vietnam 150 South Vietnam 156 Unified Vietnam 159 Cambodia 160 United States 163 Chapter 10: Military Commanders of the Vietnam War 183 Vo Nguyen Giap 183 Van Tien Dung 185 Tran Van Tra 185 William Westmoreland 186 Creighton Williams Abrams, Jr. 187 Chapter 11: Journalists and Antiwar Activists of the Vietnam War 188 David Halberstam 188 Walter Cronkite 189 Joan Baez 190 Jane Fonda 190 Abbie Hoffman 191 Chapter 12: Vietnam Unified, 1974– 192 The Socialist Republic 192 Problems of Modernization 195 Chapter 13: Vietnam and the Cold War 198 “America’s Suicide Attempt” 198 The Conduct and Cost of the War 202 Détente as Realism 203 Scaling Back U.S. Commitments 205 The Opening of China and Ostpolitik 206 Arms-Limitation Negotiations 210 End of the Vietnam War 213 The Vietnam War in Perspective 214 Glossary 216 Bibliography 218 Index 222

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