HIS 3440 The Vietnam War
(formerly HIS 344)
This course provides a comprehensive study of America's longest war. Beginning with the French colonial background, the course then proceeds to address the political, diplomatic and military aspects of the conflict from the Roosevelt to the Ford administrations and beyond. Special emphasis is placed upon the strategic and tactical contexts in which major decisions were made. The course concludes with a review of the political and cultural aftermath of the war up to the present time.
Distribution
History/Political ScienceOffered
Fall