The Vietnam War
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The Vietnam War
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Abstract
American involvement in Vietnam originated with its Cold War commitments to its European ally and colonial power France as well as a misdirected ideological absolutism in the nation’s opposition to Communist-led national independence.
Contents
- Unit 1:: Industrialization
- The Labor Question
- John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil
- Henry Ford’s Assembly Line
- The Bonsack Cigarette Rolling Machine
- The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
- Haymarket Riot
- Industrial Workers of the World
- Unit 1: Review
- Unit 2:: Immigration: Atlantic and Pacific
- Ellis Island
- The Gentlemen’s Agreement
- The Literacy Test
- Unit 2: Unit Exercises: Immigration, Atlantic and Pacific
- Unit 3:: The Growth of Cities and Social Reform
- Louis Sullivan
- The Electric Streetcar
- Sewer Socialists
- Unit 3: Review
- Unit 4:: American Empire
- Westward Expansion
- The Refrigerated Railway Car
- Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show
- Wounded Knee
- Unit 4: Review
- Unit 5:: Political and Business Reform: Populists and Progressives
- Granger Laws
- “Free Silver”
- Robert La Follette
- Unit 5: Review
- Unit 6:: The United States and World War I
- The Sinking of the Lusitania
- Trench Warfare
- The Committee on Public Information
- Unit 6: Review
- Unit 7:: The 1920s: Looking Forward, Looking Backward
- The Volstead Act
- The Florida Land Boom
- Charles Lindbergh
- Unit 7: Review
- Unit 8:: The Great Depression
- Bonus March
- Breadlines
- The Dust Bowl
- Unit 8: Review
- Unit 9:: The New Deal
- The Court-packing Plan
- Emergency Banking Relief Act
- Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States
- Unit 9: Review
- Unit 10:: The United States and World War II
- The Manhattan Project
- Henry J. Kaiser
- The Battle of the Bulge
- Unit 10: Review
- Unit 11:: The United States and the Cold War
- The “Iron Curtain”
- The “Kitchen” Debate
- The Berlin Wall
- Unit 11: Review
- Unit 12:: Civil Rights in the United States
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- The Myers Family of Levittown, Pennsylvania
- Voting Rights Act
- Unit 12: Review
- Unit 13:: The Counterculture
- The Vietnam War
- Timothy Leary
- Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters
- Woodstock
- Unit 13: Review
- Unit 14:: Conservatism and Reaganism
- The John Birch Society
- Anita Bryant
- The Moral Majority
- Unit 14: Review
- Unit 15:: Clinton, Bush, Obama, and the Age of Terror