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It was a conflict that devastated one nation and divided another. Vietnam brought a new dimension to the Cold War -- and forced the United States to rethink its goals in the superpower rivalry.


	In 1954, an assault on a remote French garrison in Vietnam set in motion the turbulent events that would lead to America's costliest war.


	Associated Press correspondent Richard Pyle on the "Five o'clock Follies" of Vietnam -- and how the rules of media-military engagement were changed.


	The specter of America's first "living room war" continues to haunt Washington in the post-Cold War era.

TIME: Blood All Over
July 16, 1965
Pravda: Stop the dirty war
March 28, 1965
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	The very name Vietnam in Chinese means "cross over to the south."

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The Vietnam War:
A geographic history of the conflict

You're LBJ. Should you push the Tonkin Gulf resolution through Congress?

Philip Caputo

U.S. Marine/Author
Robert McNamara
U.S. Secretary of Defense
Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap
Viet Minh Commander
Gen. William Westmoreland
Commander, U.S. Forces

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
August 7, 1964
State Department White Paper on Vietnam
February 27, 1965
Ho Chi Minh letter to LBJ
1967
Nixon's 'Silent Majority' speech
November 3, 1969

Ho Chi Minh
Lyndon Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Robert McNamara
Richard Nixon
Cold War Timeline

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