HTY/POL 301 Career Prep and HTY 339: Historiographical Essays and HTY 499/POL 499 Senior Seminar: Vietnam

This updated, expanded edition of Where the Domino Fell recounts the history of American involvement in Vietnam from the end of World War II, clarifying the political aims, military strategy, and social and economic factors that contributed to the participants' actions. Revised and updated to include an examination of Vietnam through the point of view of the soldiers themselves, and brings the story up to the present day through a look at how the war has been memorialized A final chapter examines Vietnam through the lens of Oliver Stone's films and opens up a discussion of the War in popular culture Written with brevity and clarity, this concise narrative history of the Vietnam conflict is an ideal student text A chronology, glossary, and a bibliography all serve as helpful reference points for students An important contribution not only to the study of the Vietnam War but to an understanding of the larger workings of American foreign policy

A revealing look at presidential politics and foreign policy-making from the aftermath of Vietnam to the NATO intervention in Kosovo. The book illuminates the relationship between presidents' domestic and foreign policy priorities and the key role of public opinion in constraining presidential initiatives, particularly the ability of a president to use military force overseas. In case studies ranging from the invasion of Grenada through the Gulf War and the dilemmas of Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo, Melanson provides compelling portraits of presidents Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton, and their different efforts to forge a foreign policy consensus.

Vietnam at war / Joseph Buttinger -- What we did there / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -- If Kennedy had lived? / Roger Hilsman -- Orphan war / Philip Geyelin -- Viet Cong : goals and mystique / Douglas Pike -- Hanoi on war and peace / Melvin Gurtov -- Moscow and Hanoi / Raymond L. McGovern -- United States and communist China / William P. Bundy -- Containment in Asia reconsidered / David P. Mozingo -- China in context / Lucian W. Pye -- We cannot accept a communist seizure of Vietnam / Robert A. Scalapino -- Great transition : tasks of the first and second postwar generations / W.W. Rostow -- Moderate solution / John Kenneth Galbrath -- Counterrevolutionary America / Robert L. Heilbroner.

My journey to Washington: June 9, 1916-January 20, 1961 -- The early years: January 19, 1961-August 23, 1963 -- The fateful fall of 1963: August 24-November 22, 1963 -- A time of transition: November 23, 1963-July 29, 1964 -- The Tonkin Gulf resolution: July 30-August 7, 1964 -- The 1964 election and its aftermath: August 8, 1964-January 27, 1965 -- The decision to escalate: January 28-July 28, 1965 -- The Christmas bombing pause, an unsuccessful attempt to move to negotiations: July 29, 1965-January 30, 1966 -- Troubles deepen: January 31, 1966-May 19, 1967 -- Estrangement and departure: May 20, 1967-February 29, 1968 -- The lessons of Vietnam -- The nuclear risks of the 1960s and their lessons for the twenty-first century.