The Vietnam War Explained

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Here's an annotated script with footnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Esm48PFgKc3-1yeEzkQ1YGhd1ULHYhWj4pQdGUBlOfY/edit?usp=sharing

Sources/further reading:
https://www.archives.gov/research/military/vietnam-war/casualty-statistics
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
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Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam by H.R. McMaster
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The Vietnam War: An Intimate History by Geoffrey Ward and Kenneth Burns
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America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975
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Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam by Nick Turse
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The American Pageant. (16th edition). Cengage Learning.
The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People (9th edition)
America Through the Lens (National Geographic)
https://paw.princeton.edu/article/wars-legacy
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
https://archive.org/details/the-fog-of-war
https://michiganintheworld.history.lsa.umich.edu/antivietnamwar/exhibits/show/exhibit/draft_protests/the-military-draft-during-the-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_the_Vietnam_War
A nice, “bite-sized” guide as to why the United States failed in the Vietnam War:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zv7bkqt/

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0:00 Introduction
3:00 War in Vietnam (1945-1946)
4:27 First Indochina War (1946-1954)
10:27 Increasing American Involvement
15:26 The War Expands
35:29 Legacy of the Vietnam War