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The Vietnam War
Ho Chi Minh's Letter
In 1919, a young Vietnamese man, who would eventually be known by the pseudonym Ho Chi Minh, delivers a letter to the American delegation to the peace talks in Paris, in the hopes that it will reach President Woodrow Wilson.
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President Johnson escalates the war while promising the public that victory is in sight.
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US soldiers discover Vietnam is unlike their fathers’ war, as the antiwar movement grows.
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With South Vietnam near collapse, LBJ bombs the North and sends US troops to the South.
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As a communist insurgency gains strength, JFK wrestles with US involvement in Vietnam.
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After a century of French occupation, Vietnam emerges independent but divided.