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The Korean War and the Vietnam War: People, Politics, and Power (America at War) By William L. Hosch

Introduction 8

Chapter 1: Precursors to the

Korean War 17

Korea Occupied and Divided, 1910–50 18

Chapter 2: Korea at War, 1950–53 26

Preparations for War 26

Invasion and Counterinvasion, 1950–51 27

Talking and Fighting, 1951–53 38

Chapter 3: Political Leaders

of the Korean War 52

North Korea 52

South Korea 55

United States 66

Soviet Union and China 71

Chapter 4: Military Commanders

of the Korean War 74

Chung Il Kwon 74

Peng Dehuai 75

Douglas MacArthur 75

Walton H. Walker 76

Edward M. Almond 77

James Alward Van Fleet 78

Matthew B. Ridgway 78

Mark Clark 79

Chapter 5: Korea Still Divided, 1953– 80

South Korea Modernized 80

North Korea Isolated 81

Chapter 6: Korea and the Cold War 91

Chapter 7: Precursors to the

Vietnam War 96

Vietnam Colonized and Divided, 1897–1955 96

Chapter 8: The American War,

1955–74 105

The Diem Regime and the Viet Cong 105

The U.S. Role Grows 108

The Conflict Deepens 111

The Gulf of Tonkin 114

The United States Enters the War 116

Firepower Comes to Naught 118

Tet Brings the War Home 124

De-escalation, Negotiation, and

Vietnamization 129

The United States Negotiates

a Withdrawal 133

The Fall of South Vietnam 144

Chapter 9: Political Leaders

of the Vietnam War 147

French Indochina 147

North Vietnam 150

South Vietnam 156

Unified Vietnam 159

Cambodia 160

United States 163

Chapter 10: Military Commanders

of the Vietnam War 183

Vo Nguyen Giap 183

Van Tien Dung 185

Tran Van Tra 185

William Westmoreland 186

Creighton Williams Abrams, Jr. 187

Chapter 11: Journalists and Antiwar

Activists of the Vietnam War 188

David Halberstam 188

Walter Cronkite 189

Joan Baez 190

Jane Fonda 190

Abbie Hoffman 191

Chapter 12: Vietnam Unified, 1974– 192

The Socialist Republic 192

Problems of Modernization 195

Chapter 13: Vietnam and the

Cold War 198

“America’s Suicide Attempt” 198

The Conduct and Cost of the War 202

Détente as Realism 203

Scaling Back U.S. Commitments 205

The Opening of China and Ostpolitik 206

Arms-Limitation Negotiations 210

End of the Vietnam War 213

The Vietnam War in Perspective 214

Glossary 216

Bibliography 218

Index 222

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