The Vietnam War

Season 1

This series tells the story of the Vietnam War, from the country's dynastic history, the impact of Christian missionaries & French colonialism, Japan's invasion during WWII and the rise of Ho Chi Minh. How the US's fear of communism created a sequence of events that caused American troops to go in and the nation found itself entwined in a war.

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S1 E1 - Vietnam and the War
April 29, 2015
43min
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In this episode: Vietnam's early history, its people, dynastic struggles and invasions. The French, the Japanese in WWII and the rise of communism in 1941. The emergence of Ho Chi Minh, nationalism into communism. The effect of the domino theory, JFK's assassination and the Gulf of Tonkin incident. The US drawn into bloody conflict.
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S1 E2 - The TV War
January 11, 2014
43min
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After early domination through Operation Thunder, three years of B52 raids, napalm and Agent Orange drops. In 1968 the Vietcong Tet Offensive turned the tide, the TV war began in full, anti-war demos, the Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy assassinations and My Lai massacre the war was now being shown on the nightly news for the first time. Over half a million US troops are deployed.
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S1 E3 - Fallout & Recovery
May 14, 2015
45min
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In this episode: Nixon orders the majority of US troops back. Watergate. The US embassy is evacuated. The South faces a backlash from the North and US veterans face dishonour and neglect back home.
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