 |  America's Longest War, 4/e George Herring,
University of Kentucky-Lexington
A Dead-End Alley: The United States, France, and the First Indochina War, 1950-1954
Additional Links
Map of Vietnam
(http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/vnmap.jpg)
For a large-scale map of Vietnam |
| | | Vietnam Events
(http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1945.html)
A timeline of Vietnam events from 1941 to 1960. |
| | | Vietnam War Slide Show
(http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/slideshow/viet-show1.htm)
View a photographic slide show of people, places, and events related to the Vietnam War. |
| | | Trusteeship Plan for Indochina
(http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/fdrch.htm)
Review President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1944 trusteeship plan for Indochina. |
| | | The Pentagon Papers
(http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/pent1.html)
Commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967, the Pentagon Papers were a secret government history of the decisions that led to American involvement in the Vietnam War. To read the chapter of the Pentagon Papers that deals with the late 1940's. |
| | | Diên Biên Phu
(http://www.dienbienphu.org/english/)
For more information on the battle of Dienbienphu |
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