Course Details

This course provides an extensive background about the Vietnam War, the relevant history of Southeast Asia, and the consequences of the conflict on the region. The text also covers the social, economic, ideological, diplomatic, and military aspects of the Vietnam War. The final chapter deals with the postwar period and the economic reforms that brought Vietnam into the World Trade Organization.

 Goals

• The student will learn about the long history of conflicts in Southeast Asia and the ancient animosity between various Asian peoples.
• Learn about the Indochina Wars.
• The history of the French occupation of Vietnam and the French Colonial Period.
• How the Cold War played a role in the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
• The Gulf of Tonkin Affair and was it real.
• The conflicts between North and South Vietnam.
• Propaganda and the art of deceit and selling the war.
• The bombing of North Vietnam and the war of attrition.
• The Antiwar Movement.
• The Vietnamization Policy and the fall of Saigon.
• The war that nobody won and the aftermath.

This course is applicable towards the following certificate:
*Contemporary World History and Politics

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