Vietnam War: Media
1954–1975
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After South Vietnamese Premier Ngo Dinh Diem canceled reunification elections scheduled...
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Under U.S. Pres. John F. Kennedy, the number of U.S. advisers to the South Vietnamese...
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The Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), though well-equipped and trained by U.S....
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On November 1, 1963, South Vietnamese Pres. Ngo Dinh Diem was overthrown and killed...
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In August 1964, in response to an alleged attack by North Vietnamese patrol boats...
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By the summer of 1964, the successes of the Viet Cong on the battlefield led the...
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In March 1965 U.S. Marines landed at Da Nang, South Vietnam, and regular troops of...
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The search-and-destroy tactics of U.S. ground troops proved ineffective in the fluid...
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On January 31, 1968, at the beginning of the traditional New Year festival of Tet,...
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The Tet Offensive was a military failure for the Viet Cong, but, at the same time,...
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In March 1968, with protests against the Vietnam War growing, U.S. Pres. Lyndon B....
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While conducting negotiations with North Vietnam, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon...
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Learn about American college students' protests against U.S. attacks on Vietnamese...
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Learn more about technology in the Vietnam War.
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Learn about the January 1973 agreement to end the Vietnam War, as announced by U.S....
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In the spring of 1975 the North Vietnamese army conquered all of South Vietnam, and...
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Learn about Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War.
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With the defeat of the French at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954, the United...
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From 1946 to 1954, the communist Viet Minh battled the French in what is often called...
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Scenes of the last American helicopter leaving Saigon, South Vietnam, April 30, 1975.
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During World War II the communist Viet Minh were the only effective Vietnamese force...
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U.S. troops wading through a marsh in the Mekong delta, South Vietnam, 1967.
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U.S. Marines bombing bunkers and tunnels used by the Viet Cong, 1966.
Department of Defense, Department of the Navy, U.S. Marine Corps/National Archives, Washington, D.C. (ID: 532444)
A map showing bases and supply routes during the Vietnam War.
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Vietnamese refugees waiting to be taken aboard the USS Blue Ridge during...
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A Viet Cong soldier crouching in a bunker during the Vietnam War.
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U.S. Pres. John F. Kennedy addressing the press about communist military action in...
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U.S. adviser training Montagnards (indigenous central highlanders) at a fortified...
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Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc, doused in gasoline, burning himself to death to protest...
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William Westmoreland meeting with U.S. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson in the White House,...
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
U.S. Marines wading ashore near Da Nang Air Base, South Vietnam, 1965.
U.S. Navy Photograph
A South Vietnamese farmer passing a U.S. Marine on patrol, 1965.
U.S. Marine Corps Photograph
U.S. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson watching a helicopter flight exercise at Fort Campbell,...
LBJ Library photo by Yoichi Okamoto
U.S. marines wading through a marsh during the Vietnam War, November 1965.
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U.S. soldiers on a search-and-destroy patrol in Phuoc Tuy province, South Vietnam,...
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U.S. helicopter spraying defoliant in dense jungle during the Vietnam War, 1969.
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Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, a U.S. high-altitude bomber, dropping a stream of bombs...
U.S. Air Force
Protesters demonstrating against the Vietnam War, New York City, April 27, 1968.
AP Images
Demonstrator offering a flower to a military police officer during a protest against...
Staff Sergeant Albert Simpson—U.S. Army Signal Corps/NARA
South Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing suspected Viet Cong officer Nguyen...
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Creighton Abrams, U.S. commander in South Vietnam, speaking as Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson...
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Vietnamese citizens photographed during the My Lai Massacre, March 16, 1968.
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(From left) U.S. National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, Pres. Richard Nixon,...
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Air America helicopter evacuating Vietnamese officials and their families from the...
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U.S. Pres. Gerald Ford and senior advisers receiving an update from Secretary of...
Gerald R. Ford Library
Transcript of helicopter radio transmissions during the fall of Saigon, South Vietnam...
Gerald R. Ford Library
Amphibious landing vehicles moving along a highway after landing at Chu Lai, South...
U.S. Navy Photograph
A U.S. Navy riverboat using a napalm flamethrower during the Vietnam War.
U.S. Navy
Military conscription was common during the Vietnam War of the 1960s and early 1970s.
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Bar graph showing the death toll in the United States during major events.
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U.S. adviser training Montagnards (indigenous central highlanders) at a fortified...
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Demonstrator offering a flower to a military police officer during a protest against...
Staff Sergeant Albert Simpson—U.S. Army Signal Corps/NARA
Audio
Richard M. Nixon and the end of the Vietnam War
U.S. Pres. Richard M. Nixon announcing the end of the Vietnam War, January 23, 1973.
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