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Language
English
ISBN
9781471838804
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Dedication
Chapter 1 The Western powers and Asia before 1950
1 The Western powers and East and Southeast Asia to 1945
2 The US containment policy
3 US policies in Asia, 1945–50
Chapter 2 The Korean War 1950–3
1 The causes and outbreak of the Korean War
2 US and UN involvement in the war in 1950
3 Reasons for Truman’s dismissal of MacArthur
4 Causes of stalemate 1951–3
5 The outcome for the participants
6 The impact of the Korean War to 1977
Chapter 3 Indochina 1945–63
1 French Indochina
2 The Geneva conference and the division of Vietnam
3 Two Vietnams and two leaders
4 Eisenhower’s policies toward Indochina
5 Kennedy’s policies toward Indochina
Chapter 4 Johnson’s Vietnam policy
1 Why Johnson continued the US involvement in the war
2 The Gulf of Tonkin resolution (1964)
3 The start of the US escalation of forces in Vietnam (1965)
4 The reasons why the United States failed to win the war
5 Interpretations
Chapter 5 Nixon’s policies in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos
1 Nixon’s changing views on Vietnam
2 Nixon and the changing Cold War world
3 Nixon and the Vietnam War
4 Assessment of Nixon’s Vietnam policy
5 Interpretations
Chapter 6 Cambodia
1 Sihanouk (1955–70)
2 US bombing and the fall of the Khmer Republic (1970–5)
3 Pol Pot and Democratic Kampuchea (1975–8)
4 The Vietnamese invasion (1978) and its consequences
5 Interpretations
Study guide
Glossary of terms
Further reading
Index
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