TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Connor,Jim
AU  - Foley,Tim
TI  - What was the Vietnam War?
T2  - What was...?
SN  - 9781524789770
AV  - DS557.7 .O27 2019
U1  - 959.704 OCO 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Workshop
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Vietnam
KW  - History
KW  - 1945-1975
KW  - United States
KW  - 1961-1969
KW  - 1969-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page 108); What was the Vietnam War? -- Where is Vietnam? -- Guerrilla warfare -- Diem's government -- Uncle Ho -- JFK -- LBJ and the growing war -- War on the ground and in the air -- Protest -- 1968 -- A war at home -- Richard Nixon -- the end of the war -- A bitter homecoming -- The Vietnam Veterans Memorial -- A final word; 6.5; 3-6; 870L; Lexile; X; Fountas
N2  - Learn how the United States ended up fighting for twenty years in a remote country on the other side of the world. Five US presidents were convinced that American troops could end a war in the small, divided country of Vietnam and stop Communism from spreading in Southeast Asia. But they were wrong, and the result was the death of 58,000 American troops. Presenting all sides of a complicated and tragic chapter in recent history, Jim O'Connor explains why the US got involved, what the human cost was, and how defeat in Vietnam left a lasting scar on America
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