Authors: Jennifer Rosenberg Retrieved from: http://history1900s.about.com/od/vietnamwar/a/vietnamwar.htm Summary: The Vietnam War was the prolonged struggle between nationalist forces attempting to unify the country of Vietnam under a communist government and the United States (with the aid of the South Vietnamese) attempting to prevent the spread of communism. Engaged in a war that many viewed as having no way to win, U.S. leaders lost the American public's support for the war. Since the end of the war, the Vietnam War has become a benchmark for what not to do in all future U.S. foreign conflicts.
Article Title: Children of the Vietnam War
Authors: David Lamb Published: June 2009 Retrieved from: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/children-ofthe-vietnam-war-131207347/?no-ist Summary: They grew up as the leftovers of an unpopular war, straddling two worlds but belonging to neither. Most never knew their fathers. Many were abandoned by their mothers at the gates of orphanages. Some were
discarded in garbage cans. Schoolmates taunted and pummeled them and
mocked the features that gave them the face of the enemyround blue eyes and light skin, or dark skin and tight curly hair if their soldier-dads were African-Americans. Their destiny was to become waifs and beggars, living in the streets and parks of South Vietnam's cities, sustained by a single dream: to get to America and find their fathers.
Article Title: The Vietnam War
Authors: ushistory.org Published: 2008 Retrieved from: http://www.ushistory.org/us/55.asp Summary: The Vietnam War was the longest war in United States history and the legacy of bitterness divided the American citizenry and influenced foreign policy into the 21st century.
Article Title: America in Vietnam, 1963: Deeper into War
Authors: Larry Burrows Published: Life Magazine, 1963 Retrieved from: http://life.time.com/history/vietnam-1963-life-magazinecolor-photos-from-a-deepening-conflict/#1 Summary: By early 1963, the number of American military personnel in Vietnam had grown from several hundred to more than 10,000 in a few short years. The ramifications of the United States direct involvement in a conflict halfway around the globe less than a decade after the ceasefire in another brutal war in Korea were certainly part of the national conversation, but in 63 Americas growing role in Vietnam was not even close to the allencompassing, divisive issue it would become by the middle of the decade.
Article Title: Historian To Discuss Vietnam War Era
Authors: Allan Gray Published: October 11, 1998 Retrieved from: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-1011/news/9810110212_1_vietnam-war-discuss-videos Summary: This week historian David Denton will describe the issues and controversies that surrounded the war, the people who opposed it, and, perhaps most important, the people who fought it.