HIS373

HIS

373

Undergraduate

VIETNAM AND THE VIETNAM WAR

Introduction to the major issues associated with the history of Vietnam and modern Vietnam's wars with France and the United States. Origins and historical development of Vietnamese society and culture; French colonialism and the emergence of modern Vietnamese nationalism; Vietnamese communism under Ho Chi Minh; the Franco-Vietminh War; the American war in Vietnam; and postwar reunification and consolidation under the Vietnamese Communist Party. Offered occasionally.

Non-Western Civilization, IF;, Other World Civilizati, GE2KA;