{"id":85182,"date":"2023-10-14T04:00:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T08:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=85182"},"modified":"2023-10-12T17:05:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T21:05:37","slug":"why-did-the-vietnam-war-break-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/10\/14\/why-did-the-vietnam-war-break-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Did the Vietnam War Break Out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EDSjoqgmc9g?si=97a5m24tlBPWqBXk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Real Time History<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 10 Oct 2023<\/p>\n<p>In 1965, US troops officially landed in Vietnam, but American involvement in the ongoing conflict between the Communist North and the anti-Communist South had started more than a decade earlier. So, why did the US-Vietnam War break out in the first place?<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Get Nebula with 40% off annual subscription with my link: <a href=\"https:\/\/go.nebula.tv\/realtimehistory\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/go.nebula.tv\/realtimehistory<\/a><br \/>\nWatch <em>Red Atoms<\/em> on Nebula: <a href=\"https:\/\/nebula.tv\/redatoms\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/nebula.tv\/redatoms<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SUPPORT US<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/patreon.com\/realtimehistory\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/patreon.com\/realtimehistory<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nebula.tv\/realtimehistory\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/nebula.tv\/realtimehistory<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u00bb THANK YOU TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS<br \/>\nRaymond Martin, Konstantin Bredyuk, Lisa Anderson, Brad Durbin, Jeremy K Jones, Murray Godfrey, John Ozment, Stephen Parker, Mavrides, Kristina Colburn, Stefan Jackowski, Cardboard, William Kincade, William Wallace, Daniel L Garza, Chris Daley, Malcolm Swan, Christoph Wolf, Simen R\u00f8ste, Jim F Barlow, Taylor Allen, Adam Smith, James Giliberto, Albert B. 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(ed), <em>Vietnam: History, Documents and Opinions on a Major World Crisis<\/em>, (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd, 1967)<br \/>\nHayslip, Ly Le &#038; Wurts, John, &#8220;When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman\u2019s Journey from War to Peace&#8221;, pp. X-xiv, in Ruane, Kevin (ed.), <em>The Vietnam Wars<\/em>, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000)<br \/>\nKearns, Doris, &#8220;Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream&#8221; pp. 251-3 in Ruane, Kevin (ed.), <em>The Vietnam Wars<\/em>, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000)<br \/>\nLanger, Howard J. <em>The Vietnam War: An Encyclopedia of Quotations<\/em>, (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005))<br \/>\nLawrence, Mark Atwood, <em>The Vietnam War: A Concise International History<\/em>, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)<br \/>\nMo\u00efse, Edwin E. <em>Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the Vietnam War<\/em>, (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2019)<br \/>\nPrados, John, &#8220;Assessing Dien Bien Phu&#8221; in Lawrence, Mark Atwood &#038; Logevall, Fredrik (eds.), <em>The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis<\/em>, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007)<br \/>\nRotter, Andrew J. &#8220;Chronicle of a War Foretold: The United States and Vietnam, 1945-1954&#8221; in Lawrence, Mark Atwood &#038; Logevall, Fredrik (eds), <em>The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis<\/em>, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007)<br \/>\nRuane, Kevin (ed.), <em>The Vietnam Wars<\/em>, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000)<br \/>\nThee, Marek, &#8220;The Indochina Wars: Great Power Involvement &#8211; Escalation and Disengagement&#8221;, <em>Journal of Peace Research<\/em>, Vol. 13, No. 2 (1976)<br \/>\nTovy, Tal, <em>The Gulf of Tonkin: The United States and the Escalation in the Vietnam War<\/em>, (New York, NY: Routledge, 2021)<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbCREDITS<br \/>\nPresented by: Jesse Alexander<br \/>\nWritten by: Mark Newton<br \/>\nDirector: Toni Steller &#038; Florian Wittig<br \/>\nDirector of Photography: Toni Steller<br \/>\nSound: Toni Steller<br \/>\nEditing: Philipp Appelt<br \/>\nMotion Design: Philipp Appelt<br \/>\nMixing, Mastering &#038; Sound Design: <a href=\"http:\/\/above-zero.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/above-zero.com<\/a><br \/>\nResearch by: Mark Newton<br \/>\nFact checking: Jesse Alexander <\/p>\n<p>Channel Design: Simon Buckmaster<\/p>\n<p>Contains licensed material by getty images and AP<br \/>\nMaps: MapTiler\/OpenStreetMap Contributors &#038; GEOlayers3<br \/>\nMusic Library: Epidemic Sound<br \/>\nAll rights reserved &#8211; Real Time History GmbH 2023<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Time History Published 10 Oct 2023 In 1965, US troops officially landed in Vietnam, but American involvement in the ongoing conflict between the Communist North and the anti-Communist South had started more than a decade earlier. 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