This was nothing remotely like the pictures of horror and devastation I had viewed on Boston television evening news. At this point in the film’s arrangement of its story, significance is given to the charge that after the Tet Offensive, then presidential candidate Richard Nixon signaled to President Thieu of South Vietnam that better terms could be had if Thieu rejected negotiations until after Nixon was elected. With the end of the Second World War, the French indeed moved to reassert their colonial rule over Vietnam, but against the expressed will and policy of the United States, which, mindful of its own national birth, made it clear that the colonized lands of Asia should move rapidly towards independence. Popular Culture Library, Adam Matthew Education (Firm) - Adam Matthew Digital (Firm) - Kunkin, Art - Bowling Green State University. The student movement and … And the journalists emit expressions of “woe!”. As You Were (Fort Ord, Monterey, Calif.) 1969-???? Into these securely defended territories, Vietnamese people came to settle, away from the Communist threat. Each segment in the series covers an indispensable and undeniable episode in the established narrative. Bunker choppered to the An Loc front to see for himself and I went with him. 1968-1968 [Microfilm Reel], Veterans Stars & Stripes for Peace (Chicago, Ill.) 1967-1971, The Ally : All the News Thats Fit to Reprint (Berkeley, Calif.) 1968-1972, Good Times (San Francisco, Calif.) 1969-1972 [Online Resource], Helix (Seattle, Wash.) 1967-1970 [Online Resource], The Awol Press ([Place of Publication Not Identified]) 1969-197? 1970s America. But politically, it was too late. If Communism took Southeast Asia, then Japan, which had deep economic ties to the region, would accommodate itself to the international Communist bloc. 1967-1967, Berkeley Tribe ([Berkeley, Ca]) 1969-1972 [Online Resource], Spokane [Natural] (Spokane, Wash.) 1967-1970.

The South was pacified through tactics that would later be called “clear, hold, and build,” providing security under the protective cover of artillery pieces and helicopter pads in “firebases” that began to dot the land like leopard spots. The Vietnam War. The United States gave the French Army in Vietnam minimal support—not to restore French colonialism, but to obstruct Communist forces. There is no doubt that giving land to the peasants was an objective of both men, but it would be done to obliterate the class enemies of the Revolution as the keystone of Marxist ideology for international transformation. 1966-1977 [Online Resource], Los Angeles Free Press (Los Angeles) 1964-1978 [Online Resource], Vietnam Summer News (Cambridge, Mass.) They were the anvil, and VNAF and U.S. air power were decimating the Communist troops as they hammered them against the anvil. This storyline is essential to the Burns-Novick line of argument. The film’s motto is: “There is no single truth in war.” That’s a true statement, but one to which the series does not adhere. And they may be correct. A memorial makes a statement about who is worth preserving. Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History, "Doves in a Hawk's Nest: Vietnam and the American Peace Movement: 1965-1975: Part 1", GIs United Against the War in Vietnam: Statement of Aims, Decade of Protest: Political Posters from the United States, Cuba, and Vietnam 1965-1975, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Mass Media and the War, Media and the Vietnam War: A Bibliography, Pentagon Papers: Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force, The Pentagon Papers: Secrets, Lies and Audiotapes. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, an equal access/equal opportunity institution. Contents. One of Bunker’s principles of diplomacy was “sometimes the best thing is to do nothing.” Thieu was now asking Bunker to see the wisdom of doing nothing and Bunker found the turnabout advice hard to take. Support the Mission of the Hoover Institution, Battlegrounds: International Perspectives, International Political and Defense Affairs, Leaving Socialism Behind: A Lesson from Germany. David Paul Kuhn’s “The Hardhat Riot” recounts a little-remembered event and traces its significance to the politics of the present day. I was so scared.” This becomes a series-long trope, repeatedly illustrated by silent images of Americans in or near combat, each face etched in fear. North Vietnamese Army (NVA) division-strength troops invaded the republic of Vietnam across three international boundaries: the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in the north, the Laos border in the Central Highlands, and the Cambodian border in the South where three NVA divisions drove toward An Loc, the provincial capital sixty five miles from Saigon.

The sole international issue of the twentieth century, they believe, was decolonization, the Third World’s struggle to cast off the colonialist powers of the West, the latest of which would become the United States. The NVA came in with T-54 tanks and with 130 mm long-range artillery. 3, pp. A Four-Year Bummer (Champaign, Ill) 1969-197?

New Mobilizer (Washington, D.C.) 1969-19?? [Microfilm Reel]. The Rag (Austin, Tex.) The Easter offensive had been years in preparation and of enormous military significance; Hanoi had lost its Viet Cong insurgency strategy and as a result was compelled to launch a full-scale conventional war to conquer the South. As Americans, they are among the losers, but their documentary exalts the winners—Communist North Vietnam. Decade of Protest: Political Posters from the United States, Cuba, and Vietnam 1965-1975. There were no U.S. combat troops left in Vietnam; all had been withdrawn long before; there was still American air support however and plenty of it. Top Secret : Gi Civilian Alliance for Peace News (Cambridge, Mass.) [Microfilm Reel], Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room, Ask a Librarian in Serial and Government Publications Division. Barbarella. The diplomats and experts repeatedly denounce the ineluctable stupidity of American leaders. At the same time, they themselves are on the winning side in the domestic American contest between the anti-Vietnam War movement and those who saw the war as necessary in the larger Cold War struggle. The major battle of the post-Tet’68 years would come when Hanoi launched its multipronged invasion of the South in April 1972; we called it “The Easter Offensive.” It is important to understand what Burns-Novick do not tell their audience about what kind of assault this was. He and his team—Rusk, Rostow, Taylor, and McNamara—all had served in World War II to defeat dictatorship, yet here they were opposed to the National Liberation Front (the latest of the shifting labels applied to the Communist side) and supported the dictatorial President Diem of the South, allowing the war to be waged in hideous ways. (The Nixon Tapes and the Supreme Court Tape), Operation Ranch Hand: the Air Force and Herbicides in Southeast Asia, 1961-1971, Veterans and Agent Orange: Health Effects of Herbicides Used in Vietnam, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Report Accessibility Barrier / Provide Feedback Form. Gi Press Service (New York, N.Y.) 1969-???? The veterans, as the producers use them, declare that American servicemen in Vietnam were scared: “I was scared of them. New Orleans Movement for a Democratic Society Newsletter (New Orleans, La.) Sort by: Top Voted.

At the same time, there emerged a younger generation—most notably of reporters led by David Halberstram, Malcolm Browne, and Neil Sheehan, who saw the truth and dared to publish it. GIs United Against the War in Vietnam: Statement of Aims. [Online Resource], The Bond : The Serviceman's Newspaper (Berkeley, Calif.;new York) 1967-1974 [Online Resource], Vietnam Gi ([Chicago, Ill.]) 1968-19?? Bunker, in growing frustration, went to see Thieu again and again to urge him to take offensive action. But Nixon was behind the decision. Other “revolutions” rocked the Sixties: the “Free Speech Movement” at Berkeley, the women’s liberation movement, black power, and so on. Search results 1 - 50 of 50. When the U.S. bombing and incursion of Cambodia took place to deny the North Vietnamese the sanctuary of that border area, I witnessed the Harvard student uprising which entirely shut down the university while humiliating the school’s administration and eminent professors. “The Vietnam War” series operates on two levels: the bulk of the narrative, images, and commentary repeats in emotional and highly dramatic form the familiar, established narrative of “Vietnam” as America’s worst-ever intervention abroad. To find relevant books and other materials in QuickSearch search the subject terms: Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Protest Movements.

Tom Hayden and Ted Turner. New Sos News (San Francisco, Calif.) 196?-???? The student movement and the antiwar movement. Sections. Here is the underlying meaning of the declaration featured at the series’ outset that “Vietnam called everything into question.” The established narrative of the war, and the gloss on it provided by Burns-Novick’s inner theme, is that the Vietnam War represented not only Hanoi’s victory over the United States, but, more consequentially, the victory of all of the layers of social-political-cultural-personal revolution of the Sixties. This is the currently selected item. The ARVN ran out of ammunition.