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America and Vietnam

Vak
2012-2013

Admission requirements

Beide tweedejaars BA-werkcolleges behaald.

Description

America’s thirty-year involvement in Vietnam failed to prevent the unification of that country under Communist leadership. This seminar examines the course of America’s intervention in Vietnam under Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. Students will analyze the foreign policy background as well as the military and political aspects of the war. Other topics include the role of the news media in reporting the war and the influence of the peace movement in opposing it. Documentary sources will be used throughout. Film and literary sources will provide additional insights.

Course objectives

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Timetable

See timetable History

Mode of instruction

Seminar

Assessment method

  • Long essay of 7.000 words (75%)

  • Seminar presentation (25%)

Blackboard

Yes

Reading list

  • Michael Hunt, A Vietnam War Reader (2010)

  • Marilyn Young, The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990 (1992)

  • Michael Lind, Vietnam: The Necessary War (1999)

Registration

Via uSis

Contact information

Email: Prof.dr. A. Fairclough