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The Vietnam Wars: The First Indochina War
Outlines the struggle between the French and Viet Minh administration in Vietnam, leading ultimately to the Viet Minh victory in the First Indochina War.
University of Washington
University of Washington Libraries: Vietnam War Era Ephemera
Access a database of leaflets, illustrations, posters, and newspapers that were distributed on the University of Washington campus during the 1960s and 1970s. Items in the collection reflect the social and political activities of the...
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: Vietnam Weapons of War
This informative site clearly describes what each side had in its arsenal of weapons during the Vietnam War.
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum
Jfk Library: Vietnam, Diem, the Buddhist Crisis
The president of Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, ignored urgings by President Kennedy to make reforms to his government. Read about the discussions Kennedy and his advisors had, find a link to a cable called the most controversial of the Vietnam...
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Nixon, Vietnam, and the Cold War
Outline of later Vietnam War struggles during the Nixon era and U.S. relations with Communist countries.
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum
Jfk in History: Vietnam
Read a brief description of the escalation of American involvement in the Vietnam War during the presidency of John F. Kennedy.
Stanford University
Stanford University: Lesson Plan on "Beyond Vietnam"
A well designed four part lesson plan on Dr. King's famous speech on the Vietnam War in which he came out against the war.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: The Domestic Course of the War
Describes the domestic effect on American life of the Vietnam War. The economic impact is covered at the end of this piece.
Vassar College
Vassar College: The Wars for Vietnam: The Documents
Document excerpts from the years 1954-1973 demonstrating U.S. support of South Vietnam. Includes links to other Vietnam sources.
Other
Www Hmong Homepage
Hmong Homepage serves as a gathering place for information about the Hmong, a people indigenous to Vietnam and Laos, and their diaspora following the Vietnam War. Includes historical information about Hmong people and extensive...
Library of Congress
Loc: See and Hear Veterans' Stories
This site is the home of the Library of Congress Veterans' Project. Collected here are stories in multiple formats about specific topics dealing with a soldier's life in WWII, the Korean conflict, and the Vietnam War. Pictures and other...
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum
Jfk Presidential Library and Museum: The Cold War
This site discusses the United States' struggle to halt the spread of Communism at the height of the Cold War.
Ohio State University
E History: Maps and Images of the Vietnam War
Select "Vietnam War" from the TOPIC drop-down menu to access maps and photographas which chronicle the Vietnam War. Shows how the war started with the French and how the North Vietnam conducted the war.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Vietnam War (History Teaching Activity)
A lesson that helps students explore the Vietnam War from a Vietnamese perspective. Students will consider how Vietnam's government teaches today's youth about the war and what Vietnamese students know about the conflict. Students can...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Quiz: Vietnam War for Kids
History Questions: Vietnam War Quiz, Test, and WebQuest
Digital History
Digital History: The War Is Finished [Pdf]
Read about the end of the Vietnam War after the peace agreement in January, 1973. Find out about the violations of the agreement by both the North and South Vietnamese and the eventual fall of the South Vietnamese government.
Ohio State University
E History: America in Vietnam: The Fifteen Year War
An encompassing textbook on U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. For teachers and students who wish to gain a deep understanding of the conlfict in its entirety.
Country Studies US
Country Studies: The War in Vietnam
The Vietnam War encompassed many decades and many presidents. This site from Country Studies provides a brief, yet comprehensive, history of the war in Vietnam.
PBS
Pbs: Battlefield: Timeline: Vietnam
Timeline of important events affecting the battlefield during the Vietnam War from January 1, 1965, to the end of the war on April 30, 1975. You will need to click on Next at the bottom of the pages to view to the end. Click Back at the...
Digital History
Digital History: Vietnamization [Pdf]
Richard Nixon claimed to have a secret plan to end the Vietnam War when he was campaigning for president in 1968. See what that secret plan was and read about how it extended the war by another four years and galvanized anti-war...
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: Vietnam From 1945 to Postwar
In 1954, a peace conference in Geneva temporarily divided Vietnam in two: a pro-communist North and an anti-communist South. The political factions in North and South Vietnam -- supported by their communist and capitalist allies in the...
University of Pennsylvania
Draft Resistance in the Vietnam Era
Analysis of number of men who resisted the draft during the Vietnam War, the types of evasion, and the reasons they gave for resisting.
Ohio State University
E History at Osu: America in Vietnam: The Fifteen Year War
Read the complete text of history professor Dr. John Guilmartin's book America in Vietnam, which follows the Vietnam War from 1960 through the 1975 fall of Saigon.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: The Presidency and the Cold War: Lyndon B. Johnson
The National Portrait Gallery explores presidents and the Cold War. Click on Lyndon B. Johnson to read about his actions during the Vietnam War, which Johnson saw as a block to Communist expansion. Watch a short video of Johnson's...