Adam Xiong

Alan Sich
Andrew Ha
11/2/17

Annotated Bibliography

Primary Sources:
"Agreement to End the Vietnam War, 1973." ["Agreement to End the Vietnamr war”]
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Out of 23 Articles, Article 3 has the agreement for a cease fire to maintain a
long lasting peace as long as it is in effect. All acts of force on the
ground, in the air and on the sea shall be prohibited. All Hostile acts,
terrorism and reprisals by both sides will be inexcusable.

Johnson, Lyndon Baines. "Letter to Ho Chi Minh." Received by Ho Chi Minh

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With these problems in mind, I am prepared to move even further an ending of
hostilities than your Government has proposed in either public statements or
through private diplomatic channels. I am prepared to order a cessation of
bombing against your country and the stopping of further augmentation of U.S.
forces in South Viet-Nam as soon as I am assured that infiltration into South Viet-
Nam by land and by sea has stopped. These acts of restraint on both sides
would, I believe, make it possible for us to conduct serious and private
discussions leading toward an early peace. I make this proposal to you now with
a specific sense of urgency arising from the imminent New Year holidays in Viet-
Nam. If your are able to accept this proposal I see no reason why it could not
take effect at the end of the New Year, or Tet, holidays. The proposal I have
made would be greatly strengthened if your military authorities and those of the
Government of South Viet-Nam could promptly negotiate an extension of the Tet
true. As to the site of the bilateral discussion I propose, there are several
possibilities. We could, for example, have our representatives meet in Moscow
where contacts have already occurred. They could meet in some other country
such as Burma. You may have other arrangements or sites in mind, and I would
try to meet your suggestions. The important thing is to end a conflict that has
brought burdens to both our peoples, and above all to the people of South Viet-
 Nam. If you have any thoughts about the actions I propose, it would be most
important that I received them as soon as possible.

Kerry, John. "Vietnam Veterans against the War Statement." ["Vietnam Veterans
Against the War Statement"].
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In this announcement from the Vietnamese Veterans, Discusses the issue of the
orders given to them to commit crimes on a day-to-day basis. It created feelings
and experiences that the Veterans relived in horror as they sleep. They told
stories that at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped
wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut
off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion
reminiscent of Ghengis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks,
and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal
ravage of war and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the
applied bombing power of this country. Vietnam Veterans now speak out, out of
their quiet, silence, to speak of the crimes in Vietnam that threatens it. They
found most people didn't even know the difference between communism and
democracy. The US was doing as much damage to Vietnam as the Viet Cong
terrorist were while the US blamed all of the havoc on the Viet Cong.

Minh, Ho Chi. "Ho Chi Minh Reply to LBJ Letter." Received by Lyndon Baines
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Ho Chi Minh responds to LBJ’s letter about the conflict in Vietnam. He states that
the death in Vietnam is caused by the soldiers and that North Vietnam is fighting
against an unwanted ineffective government. In this letter we learned that the Ho
Chi Minh and the North fights against the South to unite it so that a better
government could be created. This leads us to wonder what the views of
Americans are on the actions of the North and what does the South think about
the North’s actions. We can use this to find out source to find out whether the
aftermath of the war lead to a better Vietnam and peace in the Asian region.
Secondary Sources:
"Aggression from the North."Aggression from the North, p1. 3p.
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The document is about North Vietnam's plans of aggression against South
Vietnam. It's considered to take away the South's freedom and the U.S. has
 decided to send help to South Vietnam. The document details how North
Vietnam's plans and explains its importance in taking the South for a Communist
state. This is during a time of anti-communism where there were many conflicts
between anti-communists and communists. Knowing this it makes us wonder
why then, did the U.S. decide to later pull out of the war. Was it the government
or the people that decided to stop sending help? This allows us to look for why
support was lost.

Goscha, Christopher. "Vietnam Before the War." ["History Today"]. History

Today,vol. 67, no. 2, Feb. 2017, pp. 20-27. EBSCOhost
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President Franklin Roosevelt has his eye on the trading routes through
China and kept an eye on the Japanese from taking other islands as bases to get
closer to the U.S. If Vietnam fell to the communists, it would allow them to
dominate the region. When the French withdrew after Dien Bien Phu and
Vietnam, like Korea, was divided into a communist North led by Ho Chi Minh and
a non-communist South, the Americans accepted this policy but steadily
increased their support for an anti-communist Vietnamese leader for the South,
Ngo Dinh Diem. The South began to play into the North's hand so President
Johnson had to intervene stationing the bulk of its forces in Cam Ranh Bay. n
turn, the Vietnamese looked to the Soviet Union, signing a security alliance in
1978 which included the lease of Cam Ranh Bay, before overthrowing the Khmer
Rouge later that year. China's leader, Deng Xiaoping, then travelled to the United
States in an attempt to win support to teach Vietnam a lesson. Vietnamese
communists have now entered negotiations with the Americans, Japanese,
Europeans and anyone else who can help them deal with the resurgence of
Chinese power, after Soviet Union started to crumble. Vietnam is in the middle of
a zone where US control of the Indian Ocean dating from the Second World War
bumps up against a Chinese nation increasingly willing to challenge the
American monopoly of Asian waters.
Harvey, Nick. "Jungle Orphans." New Internationalist, no.425, Sept.2009, p24.
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Vietnam has taken over Laos and Hmong people were being tracked due to their
aid with the United States against the communist Viet Congs. The Hmong were
also portrayed on media for robbing and killing people from buses, which brought
suspicion and fear to the laotians of the Hmong. The hmong ran hid and some
 were forced to go to training camps or be killed for treason. Many of the Hmong
leaders were locked up and tried to do many things that would break their spirit.

Marciano, John. "Lessons from the Vietnam War." ["Monthly Review: An

Independent Socialist Magazine"]. Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist
Magazine,vol.68,no.7,Dec.2016,pp.43-
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22725&site=hrc-live.
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The United States was in it's own national interests to act on the Vietnam war on
an imperialist war. This brings the economic and military power into other
countries in or to expropriate land, labor, natural resources, and marketing.
The war was waged on the Vietnamese population was designed to terrorize
them into submission. U.S. began turning the entire nation into a target , not
accidentally but intentionally to the U.S.'s strategic and political premises. U.S.
abuse of the Vietnamese Civilians and prisoners of war was strictly prohibited by
the Geneva Convention, which the U.S. signed.
Marquette, Scott. "American at War." The War at Home, Rourke Publishing, p.26.
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Support for the Vietnam War declined when citizens lost faith in the
government. The draft was thought to be racist, there was inflation caused by
raised taxes and more printed money and some college students were killed
during protests. Because of this the U.S. pulled out their support in the Vietnam
War. This caused us to wonder how did the lack of support affect South
Vietnam? How much did it weaken them? This leads us to search for how this
affected the war as a whole.

Skinner, Andrew C. “Ho Chi Minh”. Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia.

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Ho never lived to see the fulfillment of his vision a unified, autonomous, peaceful
Vietnam. In 1959, there emerged in South Vietnam the Communist-oriented Viet
Cong guerrilla force supported by Ho and the North Vietnamese government.
They began conducting an armed revolt against the American-sponsored regime
of Ngo Dinh Diem. In response, the United States sent military aid to South
Vietnam. The conflict escalated to full-fledged war, which lasted until 1975, when
the Vietnamese Communists unified their country as a totalitarian state. Ho had
died six years before, on September 3, 1969, at the age of seventy-nine.