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Book SynopsisEnsure your students have access to the authoritative and in-depth content of this popular and trusted A Level History series.
For over twenty years Access to History has been providing students with reliable, engaging and accessible content on a wide range of topics. Each title in the series provides comprehensive coverage of different history topics on current AS and A2 level history specifications, alongside exam-style practice questions and tips to help students achieve their best.
The series:
- Ensures students gain a good understanding of the AS and A2 level history topics through an engaging, in-depth and up-to-date narrative, presented in an accessible way.
- Aids revision of the key A level history topics and themes through frequent summary diagrams
- Gives support with assessment, both through the books providing exam-style questions and tips for AQA, Edexcel and OCR A level history specifications and through FREE model answers
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Table of Contents
- : Chapter 1 Introduction: The United States and Vietnam
- : 1. Introduction
- : 2. Overview of the War
- : 3. Overview of the Debates on the Vietnam War
- : Chapter 2 Vietnam and Foreigners before 1953
- : 1. Ho Chi Minh and Vietnamese Nationalism
- : 2. The United States and Vietnam, 1941–5
- : 3. The Reasons for the Early American Involvement in Vietnam
- : 4. 'These Situations ... Have a Way of Snowballing'
- : 5. Key Debates on the Truman Years
- : Chapter 3 Eisenhower and Two Vietnams
- : 1. Ho, Giap and the French Failure in Indochina
- : 2. Dienbienphu – the Debate over American Intervention
- : 3. The Geneva Conference on Indochina, 1954
- : 4. Two Vietnams and Two Leaders
- : 5. Assessment of Eisenhower’s Policy
- : 6. Key Debates
- : Chapter 4 'Vietnam is the Place' – the Kennedy Crusade (1961–3)
- : 1. Introduction: Kennedy's War?
- : 2. Kennedy’s Early Ideas about Vietnam
- : 3. The President and his Advisers
- : 4. Kennedy’s Actions in the Third World
- : 5. Kennedy and Diem
- : 6. Conclusions
- : 7. Key Debates
- : Study Guide
- : Chapter 5 'Johnson's War'?
- : 1. Why Johnson Continued US involvement in the War
- : 2. How Johnson Was Able to Escalate the War
- 3. Why Did Johnson Escalate the American Involvement in: Vietnam?
- : 4. 'Where Are We Going?'
- : 5. Historians and 'Johnson's War'?
- : Study guide
- : Chapter 6 Why the USA Failed: I – The People in Vietnam
- : 1. The Vietnamese
- : 2. The Americans
- : 3. Key Debates
- : Chapter 7 Why the USA Failed: II - US Politicians and People
- : 1. Problems with Johnson’s Aims and Methods
- : 2. Why and How Johnson was Forced to Retreat
- : 3. Johnson’s Last Months
- : 4. Conclusions about Johnson and the War
- : Study Guide
- : Chapter 8 1969–73: Richard Nixon – Diplomatic Genius or Mad Bomber?
- : 1. The Transformation of a Cold Warrior?
- : 2. President Nixon
- : 3. 1969–71
- : 4. 1972 – Getting Re-elected
- : 5. Assessment of Nixon’s Vietnam Policy
- : 6. Key Debates
- : Study Guide
- : Chapter 9 Conclusions
- : 1. Summarising the Debates
- : 2. The Effects of the War
- : 3. The Lessons of the Vietnam War
- : Glossary
- : Index
