The Vietnam War

Explore the losses and legacies of the war in Vietnam.

• By This Professor
• 01: A Half-Century Cataclysm
• 02: French Indochina and the Viet Minh
• 03: Dien Bien Phu and Vietnam Divided, 1953–1959
• 04: Five Leaders Who Defined the Vietnam War
• 05: The Rise of the Viet Cong, 1959–1962
• 06: South Vietnam in Crisis, 1963
• 07: The Gulf of Tonkin and a Crossroads, 1964
• 08: The Vietnam War in the Skies
• 09: America Goes All In, 1965
• 10: The World of the American Combat Soldier
• 11: The World of the Vietnamese Combat Soldier
• 12: Guns, Gear, and Food in the Vietnam War
• 13: False Optimism, Failing Strategies, 1966–1967
• 14: How to Fight an Asymmetric War
• 15: The Tet Offensive, 1968
• 16: America in Turmoil, 1968
• 17: Race, Culture, and Women in the Vietnam War
• 18: The Antiwar Movement in America
• 19: Nixon and Vietnamization, 1969
• 20: The Race against Time, 1970
• 21: America Pulls Back, the North Strikes, 1971–1972
• 22: The Bitter End, 1972–1975
• 23: Vietnam’s Casualties, Prisoners, and MIA
• 24: Vietnam Becomes a Country, Not Just a War