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Where the Domino Fell: America and Vietnam 1945-1995

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by James S. Olson


  Boston Globe

  Bosch, Juan

  Bowles, Chester

  Bradley, Omar

  Bravo Company

  Brewster, Daniel

  Brezhnev, Leonid

  Bricker, John

  Buchwald, Art

  Buddhists

  1966 crisis

  Buis, Dale

  Bundy, McGeorge, ix

  criticizes troop buildup, leaves government in 1966,

  Bundy, William

  Bunker, Ellsworth

  Burdick, Eugene

  Bush, George

  Bush, George H.W.

  C. Turner Joy, USS

  Cable, Larry

  Calley, William

  Cambodia

  bombing and invasion of

  Cam Ranh Bay, base at

  Cao Dai

  Carter, Jimmy

  Castries, Christian de

  Catholics. See Roman Catholics ceasefire (1954)

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

  Central Office for South Vietnam (COSVN)

  Chaisson, John

  Chambers, Whittaker

  Chicago. See Democratic Convention (1968)

  Chicago Eight, trial of

  Chieu Hoi (Open Arms Program)

  Chile, and Henry Kissinger

  China

  border war between Vietnam and (1979)

  Chinese culture

  danger of intervention in Vietnam,

  Cholon

  Chu Lai, battle of

  Church, Frank

  Churchill, Winston

  CINCPAC (United States Forces in the Pacific)

  Civil Operations and Revolutionary

  Development Support (CORDS),

  Civilian Irregular Defense Groups (CIDG)

  Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam (CALCAV)

  Clifford, Clark

  Climate

  Clinton, Bill (Clinton administration),

  Cochin China

  Cogny, René

  Colby, William E.

  Collins, J. Lawton

  Columbia University

  comic books

  Coming Home (film)

  communist forces

  Tet offensive and See also North Vietnamese Army

  (NVA); Vietcong; Vietminh

  Communist party (France)

  Communist party (Indochina)

  Communist party (South Vietnam),

  Conein, Lucien

  Confucianism

  Congress, U.S. See also names of congressmen

  Con Thien, battle of

  Conrad, Joseph

  Constellation, USS

  Cooper, John Sherman

  Cooper-Church Amendment

  Coppola, Francis Ford

  CORDS. See Civil Operations and

  Revolutionary Development

  Support

  COSVN (floating command headquarters in Cambodia)

  Council of Economic Advisors

  Council of National Reconciliation and Concord

  counterinsurgency policies and programs

  Cronkite, Walter

  Crumley, James

  Dak To, attack on

  Daley, Richard

  Dallek, Robert

  Dan Xa (Social Democratic Party),

  Danang vulnerability of

  Dargulieu, George, General

  Davis, Neil

  Davis, Robert Gorham

  Dean, John Gunther

  Deer Hunter, The (movie)

  defoliants and herbicides

  de Gaulle, Charles

  Dellinger, David

  Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)

  border battles near (1967)

  Democratic party, National Convention of (1968)

  Democratic Republic of Vietnam creation of

  Deng Xiaoping

  DePuy, William

  DeSoto Missions

  Dewey, A. Peter

  Dewey, Thomas

  Diem, Ngo Dinh, (Jean Baptiste)

  early life

  family of

  Kennedy administration and

  Lansdale and

  1955–1956 campaigns against opponents

  personal characteristics of

  10/59 campaign and

  Vietminh (Vietcong) and

  Dienbienphu, battle of

  Dillon, Douglas

  diplomatic recognition of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

  Dodd, Thomas J.

  Dominican Republic

  domino theory

  Dong, Pham Van. See Pham Van Dong

  Dong Khe, battle for (1950)

  Douglas, Helen Gahagan

  draft cards, burning of

  drug abuse among U.S. troops

  Duan, Le. See Le Duan

  Duiker, William

  Dulles, Allen

  Dulles, John Foster

  Dung, Van Tien. See Van Tien Dung

  Dzu, Truong Dinh

  Eagleton, Thomas

  Eastlake, William

  Eden, Anthony

  Ehrlichman, John

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. and Dienbienphu

  and Geneva Conference

  Elections of 1959 (Vietnam)

  Election of 1960 (U.S.)

  Election of 1964 (U.S.)

  Election of 1968 (U.S.)

  Elias, Sergeant Juan Angel

  Ellsberg, Daniel

  Ely, Paul

  Elysée Agreement (1949)

  enclave strategy

  Enthoven, Alain

  Ervin, Sam

  ethnic minorities

  Evans, Diane Carlson

  Fall, Bernard

  Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR),

  Felt, Harry

  1st Air Calvary Division

  Fellowship of Reconciliation

  first Indochina war (1946–1954)

  casualties in

  domino theory and

  strategy of French forces in

  Navarre Plan

  strategy of Vietminh forces in

  First Blood (movie), vii

  Fishel, Wesley

  Ford, Gerald

  Forrestal, Michael

  Fortas, Abe

  fragging

  France

  Casualties See also first Indochina war (1946–1954)

  Franco-Vietminh accords

  Free Fire Zone (movie)

  French empire

  colonial rule by

  Diem and

  return to Indochina after World War II

  French Union

  Truman administration and

  French Expeditionary Corps

  French Union

  Fulbright, J. William

  Galbraith, John Kenneth

  Gavin, James, enclave strategy

  Gelb, Leslie H.

  Geneva Accords (1954)

  Geneva Conference (1954)

  Geneva Conference on Laos (1961),

  Giap, Vo Nguyen

  and Dienbienphu

  quoted

  strategy of

  Goldberg, Arthur

  Goldman, Eric F.

  Goldwater, Barry

  Gorbachov, Mikhail

  Gracey, Douglas D.

  Gramm, Phil

  Great Britain

  Great Society

  Greece

  Green Berets. See Special Forces

  Green Berets, The (movie)

  Greene, Graham

  Greene, Wallace

  Greenstein, Fred I.

  Group

  Group

  Gruening, Ernest

  Guam conference

  Gulf of Tonkin incidents (1964),

  Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  Haiphong

  1946 battle in

  blockade of harbor

  mining of harbor of

  Halberstam, David

  Hamburger Hill

  Hamlet Evaluation Survey

  Hanoi

  “hard hat” riot (New York City, 1970),

  Harkins, Paul

 
Harriman, W. Averell

  Harrington, Michael

  Hart, Frederick

  Hatfield, Mark

  Hatfield-McGovern Amendment,

  Hayden, Tom

  Heaven on Earth (movie)

  Heilbronn, Lisa M

  Herr, Michael

  Hersey, John

  Hersh, Seymour

  Heston, Charlton

  Hillendale, Colonel

  Hilsman, Roger

  Hiss-Chambers case

  Hmong army

  Hoa Hao

  Ho Chi Minh

  1946 negotiations in France and,

  1956 elections and

  conversion to communism

  death of

  Dienbienphu and

  early life of

  on French imperialism

  intransigence of

  Nghe An Revolt and (1930)

  in 1920s

  quoted

  strategic thinking of:

  Vietminh (Vietcong) in South

  Vietnam and 1954–1959;

  policies

  during World War II

  Ho Chi Minh City See also Saigon

  Ho Chi Minh Trail

  Hoffman, Abbie

  Hoffman, Julius

  Honolulu Conference (1966)

  Hoopes, Townsend

  House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

  Hue

  Hull, Cordell

  Humphrey, Hubert

  Huong, Tran Van. See Tran Van Huong

  Hussein, Saddam

  Huynh Phu So

  Ia Drang Valley, battle of

  ice cream for the troops

  Indochinese Communist party

  Indonesia

  Intercolonial Union

  International Control Commission

  Iran

  Iraq

  Iron Triangle

  Islam

  Jackson State University

  Japan

  domino theory and

  World War II and

  Jason Report (urges bombing)

  Jiang Jieshi

  JFK (movie)

  Johns Hopkins University, LBJ speech at

  Johnson, Harold K.

  Johnson, Lady Bird

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (Johnson administration)

  antiwar movement and

  bombing of North Vietnam

  character sketch

  decision not to seek reelection

  diplomatic peace moves of (1965–1967)

  election of 1964

  election of 1968

  enclave strategy

  escalation of the war

  on fact-finding mission (1961)

  health of

  Khe Sanh and

  lies of

  personal background and characteristics of

  San Antonio formula

  “Wise Men” group’s advice to

  Kalb, Bernard

  Kalisher, Peter

  Kampuchea See also Cambodia

  Karnow, Stanley

  Kattenburg, Paul

  Kennan, George

  Kennedy, Edward

  Kennedy, John F. (Kennedy administration), ix

  assassination of

  1961 policy deliberations,

  background and early career of,

  Diem and

  inaugural speech of

  Laos and

  Kennedy, Robert F.

  1968 presidential bid

  assassination of

  Kent State University

  Kerrey, Bob

  Kerry, John (Winter Soldier Investigation)

  Ketwig, John

  Khanh, Nguyen. See Nguyen Khanh

  Khe Sanh

  Khmer

  Khmer Kampuchea Krom

  Khmer People’s National Liberation

  Front

  Khmer Rouge

  Khoi, Ngo Dinh

  Khrushchev, Nikita

  King, Reverend Martin Luther

  Kissinger, Henry

  peace negotiations and

  Knowland, William

  Kolko, Gabriel

  Komer, Robert

  Kontum

  Korean War

  Koster, Samuel

  Kovic, Ron

  Krom. See Khmer Kampuchea Krom

  Krulak, Victor (“Brute”)

  Kubrick, Stanley

  Kunitz, Stanley J.

  Kuwait

  Ky, Nguyen Cao. See Nguyen Cao Ky

  Laird, Melvin R.

  Lam Son

  Lam Van Phat

  land reform

  Lang Son

  Laniel, Joseph

  Lansdale, Edward G.

  Lao Dong party

  Laos

  1961 crisis in

  bombing of

  invasion of

 

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