VIETNAM:

Course description and books

Course Guide Supplementary Material

Part One begins with a brief overview of more than 2000 years of Vietnamese history:

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  To 208 BC: A tributary state at the southern border of ancient China
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  208 BC-111 BC: Vietnam became an independent nation
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  111 BC-939 AD: Another millennium of Chinese rule
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  939-1861: Independence, expansion, and French encroachment
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  1861: Saigon falls to France 1887: France completes colonization of Indochina
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  1919: WW I ends; Ho Chi Minh asks US President Wilson for help in attaining independence
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  1932: France installs Bao Dai as Emperor
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  1945: WW II ends: Bao Dai abdicates| Ho Chi Minh declares independence

A Cross-National, Interdisciplinary Perspective

From Birth to
Rebirth
208 BC - 1945

Defeat of the French and
Entrance of the U.S.
1945-1964

The U.S.-Vietnam War:
Escalation Phase,
1964-1968

The End of the War and Aftermath,
1968-present

Developed by David L. Elliott