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The Vietnam War
While traditional accounts of the Vietnam War viewed it as an American Cold War conflict, later studies emphasise how Cold War themes intersect with...
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The Vietnam War in Africa
This chapter explores the transnational history of the Vietnam War in Africa. It argues that, while the conflict in Southeast Asia did not influence...
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The Vietnam Moratorium and the Limits of Cold War Congressional Peace Politics
The Vietnam Moratorium mobilized millions of Americans to oppose the Vietnam War on October 15, 1969. Congressmen shared the stage with grassroots...
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Vietnam War Protest and Solidarity in West Germany
West-German Vietnam solidarity and protest had three main organisational roots: (1) the “Campaign for Disarmament”, which emerged from the pacifist...
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Protest in the Vietnam War Era
This book assesses the emergence and transformation of global protest movements during the Vietnam War era. It explores the relationship between...
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The Vietnam War, Protest, and Democratization in South Korea
Despite a twentieth-century history of large-scale mass protests against colonization, authoritarianism, and corruption in South Korea, there is a...
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The Soviet Public and the Vietnam War: Political Mobilization, Public Organizations, and Activism, 1965–1973
Propaganda against the US war in Vietnam was ubiquitous in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and early 1970s and spawned a massive campaign for “moral...
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The Japanese New Left, the Vietnam War, and Anti-Imperial Protest
Despite years of mass protests, confrontations with police, and even armed resistance to the U.S. war in Vietnam, Japan is rarely included in...
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The Engineering of Political Equidistance and Its Consequences: The Vietnam War and Popular Protest in Yugoslavia
The authors analyze politics and protest in Yugoslavia vis-à-vis the United States waging war in Vietnam. In managing its policies regarding the...
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The Vietnam War, Maoism, and the Cultural Revolution: Propaganda and Mobilization in the People’s Republic of China
Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this chapter explores the linkage between the anti-Vietnam War campaign and the Great Proletarian...
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Singing in Solidarity: The Latin American Protest Song Movement and the Vietnam War
During the “long” 1960s, music played a significant but underappreciated role in promoting political radicalism and connecting far-flung social...
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Army Nurse Corps Voices from the Vietnam War Eight Women, One War
This book provides an oral history of women who served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War. It follows the trajectory of eight...
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“To Go Further Than Words Alone”: The World Peace Council and the Global Orchestration of Vietnam War Campaigns During the 1960s
Communist international campaigns against the Vietnam War have been seen as a matter of inefficient and hollow propaganda: fatally discredited by...
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Revolutionary Soulmates? Cuba’s Slow Discovery of Vietnam
This chapter examines the close parallels drawn in the 1960s by Cuba’s revolutionary leadership between what it saw, on the one hand, as Cuba’s...
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Between Anti-Imperialism and Anti-Communism: Poland and International Solidarity with Vietnam
Recent literature on the connection between the Second and the Third World argues that Poland was among the least engaged countries of the entire...
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Waging the Cold War
This chapter assesses the nature of Cold War rivalry by looking at facets of competition, particularly relating to the military. It focuses on the...
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Stalemate in the War of Resistance
Once Guangzhou and Wuhan fell to the enemy, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered a new phase characterized by strategic...
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The Vietnam Activities of the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF)
This chapter, based on an analysis of printed sources, archival material, memoirs, and biographies, outlines the history of interaction between...
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The Middle East and the Cold War
The Middle East underlines the potent mix of imperial retreat, religion, nationalism, nation-building and great power competition colliding against...