Vietnam is 7,000 miles away from your country. Why does American security depend on the survival of its allies?

Vietnamese independence and the First Indochina WarThe Geneva Agreements of 1954The creation of South VietnamRepression and revolution in South VietnamThe expansion of U.S. involvement under KennedyLyndon Johnson and the Gulf of Tonkin ResolutionJohnson takes the nation to warIII. The American War in Vietnam – conduct and costs“Pacification”The Phoenix programSearch and destroy: The ground warTechnological rampage: The air warAn inhuman fate: The U.S. chemical warPeace negotiationsCosts of war

Consciousness raising

Creating the antiwar movementThe antiwar movement in the Nixon yearsProtest music of the Vietnam War (linked page)