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The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War: Executive and Legislative Roles and Relationships, Part I : 1945-1960 / William Conrad Gibbons.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 458Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1986Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (380 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691610368
  • 9781400858125
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS558 .G53 1986
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Map: Vietnam After The 1954 Geneva Conference -- Chapter 1. France Resumes Control and the War Begins -- Chapter 2. The U.S. Joins the War -- Chapter 3. Prelude to French Withdrawal -- Chapter 4. Rattling the Saber -- Chapter 5. The New U.S. Role in Vietnam -- Chapter 6. Counter-Revolution and "Nation Building" During the Interval Between the Wars -- Index
Summary: This searching analysis of what has been called America's longest war" was commissioned by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to achieve an improved understanding of American participation in the conflict. Part I begins with Truman's decision at the end of World War II to accept French reoccupation of Indochina, rather than to seek the international trusteeship favored earlier by Roosevelt. It then discusses U.S. support of the French role and U.S. determination to curtail Communist expansion in Asia.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Map: Vietnam After The 1954 Geneva Conference -- Chapter 1. France Resumes Control and the War Begins -- Chapter 2. The U.S. Joins the War -- Chapter 3. Prelude to French Withdrawal -- Chapter 4. Rattling the Saber -- Chapter 5. The New U.S. Role in Vietnam -- Chapter 6. Counter-Revolution and "Nation Building" During the Interval Between the Wars -- Index

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This searching analysis of what has been called America's longest war" was commissioned by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to achieve an improved understanding of American participation in the conflict. Part I begins with Truman's decision at the end of World War II to accept French reoccupation of Indochina, rather than to seek the international trusteeship favored earlier by Roosevelt. It then discusses U.S. support of the French role and U.S. determination to curtail Communist expansion in Asia.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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