By David R. Farber, Beth L. Bailey
ISBN-10: 0231113722
ISBN-13: 9780231113724
The Nineteen Sixties remain the topic of passionate debate and political controversy, a touchstone in struggles over the which means of the yankee earlier and the course of the yankee destiny. Amid the polemics and the myths, making experience of the Sixties and its legacies offers a problem. This ebook is for all those that are looking to take it on. simply because there are such a lot of features to this specific and transformative period, this quantity bargains a number of methods and perspectives.The first part offers a full of life narrative evaluation of the decade's significant guidelines, occasions, and cultural adjustments. the second one offers ten unique interpretative essays from renowned historians approximately major and arguable concerns from the Vietnam warfare to the sexual revolution, by means of a concise encyclopedia articles prepared alphabetically. This part may perhaps stand as a reference paintings in itself and serves to complement the narrative. next sections comprise brief topical essays, particular topics, a short chronology, and eventually an in depth annotated bibliography with considerable info on books, motion pictures, and digital assets for additional exploration.With fascinating evidence, data, and comparisons provided in almanac type in addition to the services of admired students, The Columbia consultant to the US within the Nineteen Sixties is the main entire advisor to an enduringly attention-grabbing period.
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Until 1954, the French and the Vietnamese fought. Outgunned, the Viet- The Vietnam War 35 namese fought a guerrilla war. They sought simply to wear down the French by making the price of empire—in French blood and money—too high a cost to bear. The United States played only a limited role in this war, giving France financial support and then direct military aid. The United States aided France for two reasons. First, France was a critical European ally in the cold war struggle against the Soviet Union.
No policy-maker believed that the United States should try to conquer North Vietnam—such an effort would have caused international opprobrium; it would have demanded total war mobilization by the American people; and it would have produced an immense number of American casualties over a period of many years. As a result, American success was measured not by taking territory or by winning key battles but by the “body count,” the number of enemy dead. The problem with this strategy was that no one could say how many enemy dead it would take to end the war.
2 Defense experts told the president that he had to increase pressure on the communists or South Vietnam would fall. Johnson was loath to commit the United States to a land war in Southeast Asia, for Vietnam was no security threat to the United States and represented 38 the american sixties: a brief history no direct American interests. On the other hand, he feared that if he allowed America to fail in Vietnam, the Soviet Union and China might perceive America as weak and begin to contemplate attacks on American allies in the region.
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