Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-520-27612-3
Verlag: University Of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 352 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 656 g

Reihe: From Indochina to Vietnam: Revolution and War in a Global Perspective

Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War opens in 1954 with the signing of the Geneva accords that ended the eight-year-long Franco-Indochinese War and created two Vietnams. In agreeing to the accords, Ho Chi Minh and other leaders of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam anticipated a new period of peace leading to national reunification under their rule; they never imagined that within a decade they would be engaged in an even bigger feud with the United States. Basing his work on new and largely inaccessible Vietnamese materials as well as French, British, Canadian, and American documents, Pierre Asselin explores the communist path to war. Specifically, he examines the internal debates and other elements that shaped Hanoi's revolutionary strategy in the decade preceding U.S. military intervention, and resulting domestic and foreign programs. Without exonerating Washington for its role in the advent of hostilities in 1965, Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War demonstrates that those who directed the effort against the United States and its allies in Saigon were at least equally responsible for creating the circumstances that culminated in arguably the most tragic conflict of the Cold War era.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Asselin, Pierre

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, Bewaffnete Konflikte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by the series editors

Acknowledgments

Glossary of Terms and Acronyms

Introduction

1. Choosing Peace, 1954–1956

2. Changing Course, 1957–1959

3. Treading Cautiously, 1960

4. Buying Time, 1961

5. Exploring Neutralization, 1962

6. Choosing War, 1963

7. Waging War, 1964

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pierre Asselin is Professor of History at Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu and the author of A Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement.