The Vietnam War
This new series tells the compelling story of the Vietnam War, beginning with the country’s dynastic history. It details the impact of Christian missionaries and French colonialism, Japan’s invasion during WWII, the rise of Ho Chi Minh, and how the USA’s fear of Communism started a relentless sequence of events that caused American troops to go in under President Kennedy in 1961. Conflict escalated under Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 when the nation was entwined in a war fought nightly on TV, engendering a huge antiwar movement. By 1975, Nixon had resigned, and America was forced to withdraw from Saigon.
This new series tells the compelling story of the Vietnam War, beginning with the country’s dynastic history. It details the impact of Christian missionaries and French colonialism, Japan’s invasion during WWII, the rise of Ho Chi Minh, and how the USA’s fear of Communism started a relentless sequence of events that caused American troops to go in under President Kennedy in 1961. Conflict escalated under Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 when the nation was entwined in a war fought nightly on TV, engendering a huge antiwar movement. By 1975, Nixon had resigned, and America was forced to withdraw from Saigon.
More Episodes
Related Titles
Related Articles
View All
Just War Theory and the Ethics of Armed Conflict
Humans have waged wars for millennia, but is war ever justifiable? Just war theorists offer principles that explain when war is justified and how war should be conducted.
War Correspondents: Risking It All for the Story
It’s a dangerous world for war correspondents, and getting riskier by the day. Reporter Lara Logan was brutally attacked in a 2011 Egypt demonstration yet survived. She is but one…
Ernie Pyle and A.J. Liebling: The Sacrifice of Two Writers Who Remade War Reporting
WWII reporters Ernie Pyle and A.J. “Joe” Liebling focused on the everyday details of U.S. troops on the march and under fire. They wrote honestly of their own fears and of the…
Cold War Capers: Salyut-7 and the Bitter Memory of Submarine K-129
During the Cold War, the geopolitical stakes could not have been higher. But no episode combined audacity with deep secrecy and paranoia like the U.S. attempt to raise a sunken…
Time to Fly: Female Aviators and WASP Were 'Hidden Figures' of World War II
Everyone knows about Amelia Earhart, but can you name another notable female pilot? Some of the great pioneers of aviation were women, and the story of a group of women who were…