Week of April 10, Monday Lecture

I. "The Great Society"

II. The Origins of the War

• Colonial Background
• Ho Chi Minh and Independence
  IMAGE: Ho Chi Minh
  TEXT: Vietminh Declaration of Independence
• France and the Cold War
• Cold War Vision
• Foreign Policy under Eisenhower
  TEXT: The Eisenhower Doctrine
• 1954: Dien Bien Phu and Geneva
  IMAGE: The Fall of Dien Bien Phu
• Ngo Dinh Diem
  IMAGE: Ngo Dinh Diem
  TEXT: Eisenhower's Letter to Ngo Dinh Diem
• Vietminh

III. Kennedy's Vision

• The Peace Corp
  TEXT: The Beginning of the Peace Corps
• The Green Berets
• Counter-Insurgency
• The Hard Line and Vietnam
  TEXT: Kennedy's Letter to Ngo Dinh Diem
• The Coup
• The Script

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