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What was the Vietnam War?

Jim O'Connor

Book - 2019

"Learn how the United States ended up fighting for twenty years in a remote country on the other side of the world. The Vietnam War was as much a part of the tumultuous Sixties as Flower Power and the Civil Rights Movement. Five US presidents were convinced that American troops could end a war in the small, divided country of Vietnam and stop Communism from spreading in Southeast Asia. But they were wrong, and the result was the death of 58,000 American troops. Presenting all sides of a com...plicated and tragic chapter in recent history, Jim O'Connor explains why the US got involved, what the human cost was, and how defeat in Vietnam left a lasting scar on America"--

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Series
What was--?
Subjects
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Juvenile literature.
Vietnam > History > 1945-1975 > Juvenile literature.
United States > History > 1961-1969 > Juvenile literature.
United States > History > 1969- > Juvenile literature.
Genres
Instructional and educational works
Illustrated works
Published
New York : Penguin Workshop [2019]
Language
English
Physical Description
108 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Audience
Ages 8-12.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 108).
ISBN
9781524789770
9781524789787
9781544430225
Main Author
Jim O'Connor (author)
Other Authors
Tim Foley, 1962- (illustrator)
  • What was the Vietnam War?
  • Where is Vietnam?
  • Guerrilla warfare
  • Diem's government
  • Uncle Ho
  • JFK
  • LBJ and the growing war
  • War on the ground and in the air
  • Protest
  • 1968
  • A war at home
  • Richard Nixon
  • the end of the war
  • A bitter homecoming
  • The Vietnam Veterans Memorial
  • A final word.
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