History Vault is a collection of primary source material pertaining to the civil rights movement and to U.S. foreign policy during the Vietnam War era. A report into French atrocities in Vietnam (1933) Vietnam War Records Commercial Sources Archives Unbound (Gale) Digital collections for historical documents in the areas of: PsyOps, Afghanistan, China, Japan, Vietnam, Civil War, Persian Gulf War, Latin America, Radicalism, Czechoslovakia, Turkey and more. McNamara and Taylors report on South Vietnam (October 1963) They dump their goods in Indochina to prevent the development of local handicrafts. Our long-term objectives are to see installed a self-governing nationalist state which will be friendly to the US We have an immediate interest in maintaining in power a friendly French Government, to assist in the furtherance of our aims in Europe. Country music was not necessarily lynching music, but no other music could be imagined as lynchings accompaniment. Content created by Alpha History may not be copied, republished or redistributed without our express permission. But these events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the world nor of Americas leadership in the world. President Gerald R. Ford in a speech at Tulane Universityon April 23, 1975. President Ford on Americas post-Vietnam recovery (April 1975). The Marines of Mike Company had walked into an ambush laid by over 2,500 well-camouflaged North Vietnamese warriors. "Bob" Haldeman and Attorney General John Mitchell on April 4, 1972 in deciding to launch what would become known as Operation Linebacker,a massive escalation in the war effort that that included mining Haiphong harbor, blockading the North Vietnamese coast, and launching a massive new bombing campaign against North Vietnam. By 1963, the North Vietnamese had sent 40,000 soldiers to fight in the south. In the final analysis, it is their war. From 1945 to 1975 here is the IGCSE textbook Old people still sit on their porches and talk, but their conversations aren't sprinkled with laughter anymore. PFC Meadlo on his role in the killings at My Lai (November 1969) North Vietnam was supported by theSoviet Union,China,and othercommunistallies; South Vietnam was supported by theUnited Statesand otheranti-communistallies. Le Duan: The path of revolution in the South (1956) General Collections We can help them, we can give them equipment, we can send our men out there as advisors, but they have to win it, the people of Vietnam, against the communists. President John Kennedy in a televised interview with Walter Cronkite on September 2, 1963. I agree with the Senator that that is the last thing we would want to do. We savaged them, though they had never hurt us, and we cannot find it in our hearts, our honor, to give them help-because the government of Vietnam is Communist. Surviving Vietnam focuses on the psychological. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves. President Lyndon Johnson in a speech at Akron University on October 21, 1964, two weeks before the presidential election. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldnt have to draft me, Id join tomorrow. I think we have all underestimated the seriousness of this situation. -Gen. Curtis LeMay, May 1964. Our morning rush through crowded streets is not to cry murder but to hit that trough before somebody else gobbles our share. Kennedy pledges support for Diem, South Vietnam (December 1961) //