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Course description

This course examines the Vietnam War, a conflict that can be traced to French colonisation during the nineteenth century, but which reached its climax during the Cold War of the 1950s and 1960s when first the French and then the United States struggled unsuccessfully to thwart Vietnamese nationalism. Topics include: French colonialism and decolonisation in Vietnam, the Cold War and America's road to involvement in Indochina, the Americans and Vietnamese at war, the media and the War, the antiwar movement, the impact of the War on Vietnamese society, Ho Chi Minh and Vietnamese nationalism and communism, Richard Nixon and Vietnam, Australia and the Vietnam War, the Khmer Rouge and the Killing Fields in Cambodia, cinematic representations of the War, and the War's legacies.