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Taught by Professor Gary W. Gallagher and 2 other(s) | 32 min | Categories: History
The French Empire in Vietnam ended in 1955. In support of the non-Communist southern half of the country resisting reunification, by 1968 half a million American soldiers were fighting there. Casualties and TV footage of troops persecuting villagers or accidentally bombing children with napalm turned public opinion against the war. President Johnson abandoned his re-election plans because of it. The last Americans withdrew only in 1973. The Vietnam syndrome constrained American military actions for decades.
84 Lectures
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Living Bravely
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Spain, France, and the Netherlands
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of 32 min
3
Gentlemen in the Wilderness
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of 31 min
4
Radicals in the Wilderness
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5
Traders in the Wilderness
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of 30 min
6
An Economy of Slaves
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of 31 min
7
Printers, Painters, and Preachers
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of 30 min
8
The Great Awakening
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of 29 min
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The Great War for Empire
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10
The Rejection of Empire
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11
The American Revolution - Politics and People
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of 30 min
12
The American Revolution - Howe's War
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of 29 min
13
The American Revolution - Washington's War
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of 32 min
14
Creating the Constitution
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of 33 min
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Hamilton's Republic
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of 30 min
16
Republicans and Federalists
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of 29 min
17
Adams and Liberty
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18
The Jeffersonian Reaction
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of 30 min
19
Territory and Treason
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of 28 min
20
The Agrarian Republic
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of 29 min
21
The Disastrous War of 1812
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of 30 min
22
The “American System”
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23
A Nation Announcing Itself
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24
National Republican Follies
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25
The Second Great Awakening
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26
Dark Satanic Mills
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27
The Military Chieftain
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The Politics of Distrust
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The Monster Bank
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Whigs and Democrats
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American Romanticism
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The Age of Reform
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Southern Society and the Defense of Slavery
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34
Whose Manifest Destiny?
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of 30 min
35
The Mexican War
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of 29 min
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The Great Compromise
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Sectional Tensions Escalate
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Drifting Toward Disaster
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39
The Coming of War
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The First Year of Fighting
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of 30 min
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Shifting Tides of Battle
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42
Diplomatic Clashes and Sustaining the War
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of 30 min
43
Behind the Lines - Politics and Economies
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of 30 min
44
African Americans in Wartime
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of 31 min
45
The Union Drive to Victory
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of 30 min
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Presidential Reconstruction
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of 30 min
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Congress Takes Command
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of 31 min
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Reconstruction Ends
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Industrialization
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Transcontinental Railroads
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The Last Indian Wars
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Farming the Great Plains
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African Americans after Reconstruction
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Men and Women
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Religion in Victorian America
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The Populists
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The New Immigration
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City Life
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Labor and Capital
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Theodore Roosevelt and Progressivism
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Mass Production
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World War I - The Road to Intervention
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World War I - Versailles and Wilson's Gambit
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of 32 min
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The 1920s
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The Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression
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The New Deal
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World War II - The Road to Pearl Harbor
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World War II - The European Theater
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World War II - The Pacific Theater
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The Cold War
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The Korean War and McCarthyism
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The Affluent Society
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The Civil Rights Movement
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of 32 min
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The New Frontier and the Great Society
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The Rise of Mass Media
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The Vietnam War
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The Women's Movement
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78
Nixon and Watergate
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of 30 min
79
Environmentalism
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of 30 min
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Religion in Twentieth-Century America
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81
Carter and the Reagan Revolution
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82
The New World Order
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83
Clinton's America and the Millennium
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84
Reflections
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