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Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1986

422 stran : mapy ; 22 cm

ISBN 0-691-02254-2 (brožováno)

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CONTENTS // PREFACE... // MAP: // Vietnam after the 1954 Geneva Conference... // CHAPTER 1. FRANCE RESUMES CONTROL AND THE WAR BEGINS... // Development of the U.S. Position on Trusteeships... // The Communist Threat and Its Effects on U.S. Policy Toward Colonial // Problems... // The Executive Branch Debates U.S. Policy Toward Indochina... // Congress Begins Debate on U.S. Policy in Asia... // The War Begins in Vietnam, 1946-48... // The Commitment is Made to "Containment" and to the Defense of "Free // Peoples”... // Congress Also Approves the Use of Military Advisers... // The Debate Over Intervening in China... // China Falls to the Communists and Debate Begins on Defending Vietnam ... // Approval of Funds for the "General Area of China”... // CHAPTER 2. THE U.S. JOINS THE WAR... // The Decision to Become Involved in the War in Indochina... // Congress Passes Legislation to Provide New Aid for Indochina... // The Anti-Communist Offensive and NSC 68... // The Effects of the Korean War... // The Question of Using American Forces in Indochina... // Congress Provides Additional Aid for Indochina... // Developments in Indochina During 1951 as the U.S. Becomes More Involved... ... // Congress Approves 1951 Legislation for Aid to Indochina... // Renewed Concern About Indochina... // Fear of Chinese Intervention... // Deterring the Chinese... // Approval of NSC 124/2... // Congress Acts on 1952 Aid to Indochina... // CHAPTER 3. PRELUDE TO FRENCH WITHDRAWAL... // U.S. Increases

Pressure on the French... // Congressional Dissatisfaction with the French... // The U.S. Increases Its Commitment... // Further U.S. Efforts To Support French Forces... // Another Reevaluation of U.S. Policy in Indochina... // NSC 5405 and the Continuing Debate Over the U.S. Commitment to // Defend Indochina... // The Decision to Send U.S. Aircraft Technicians to Vietnam... // The U.S. Prepares for Negotiations, and for War?... // The Battle of Dien Bien Phu Begins... // CHAPTER 4. RATTLING THE SABER... // The U.S. Announces the United Action Concept... // "The Day We Didn’t Go To War”? ... // The NSC Postpones Action on Direct Intervention... // Congress Debates Intervention... // The British Oppose Intervention... // Vice President Nixon Says Troops Might Be Sent... // The French Again Request U.S. Airstrikes... // The Final Decision Not to Intervene at Dien Bien Phu... // Dien Bien Phu Falls and the U.S. Again Considers Intervening in Indochina ... // VII // XIII // 1 // 7 // 17 // 18 // 23 // 25 // 26 // 34 // 38 // 48 // 54 // 64 // 65 // 68 // 71 // 73 // 78 // 85 // 86 // 94 // 97 // 102 // 104 // 108 // 118 // 120 // 121 // 129 // 135 // 141 // 146 // 149 // 155 // 163 // 170 // 174 // 176 // 187 // 197 // 203 // 207 // 209 // 212 // 221 // 225 // Page // CHAPTER 5. THE NEW U.S. ROLE IN VIETNAM... // Preparing to Intervene and to Take Over From the French... // The Army Objects... // Eisenhower Continues to Insist on Conditions, and the U.S. Pulls Away

from the French... // Reactions in Congress... // The End of the First Indochina War... // First Steps After Geneva... // NSC 5429-Redefining U.S. Interests and Role... // Establishment of SEATO... // The Formosa Resolution... // CHAPTER 6. COUNTERREVOLUTION AND "NATION BUILDING” // DURING THE INTERVAL BETWEEN THE WARS... // The Collins Mission... // Diem Clashes with the Sects and Washington Agrees to Seek a New // Government... // Diem Consolidates His Power... // The U.S. and the "New Vietnam”: Waging the Counterrevolution... // Overt Aid for "Nation-Building”... // Congress and Aid to Vietnam and Laos... // The Colegrove Hearings... // Congressional Oversight of the CIA... // The Beginning of the End of Diem’s "Miracle”... // Resumption of the Armed Struggle... // Leadership in Vietnam and Laos Reconsidered... // Another Step Toward the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution... // 00 CLcoco co // co co co // N1D1O1OO1O // -1-10.0000 // 0-10000000 // 1to // 00 00 // -110 // CO CO CO CO CO CO CO CO CO DO LO // L00000NNH0O0 // COCOLHCOPA 0.H 00000