Marked Hanoi

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

The Vietnam War

Communist North Vietnam and the Viet Cong fought South Vietnam and its ally the United States for twenty years. Television brought the war into homes, protest grew, and in 1975 Saigon fell.

Place
Hanoi · Saigon · Huế · My LaiAsia, The Americas
Laid out as
A warTwo sides, a front line, and the turns the fighting took.
Lessons
7 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

South Vietnam and the United States, with allies

  1. IA divided Vietnam
  2. IIThe Ho Chi Minh trail
  3. IIIAmerican troops
  4. IVThe Tet offensive
  5. VAgent Orange
  6. VIProtest at home
  7. VIIThe fall of Saigon

North Vietnam and the Viet Cong

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Ho Chi Minh
  • Võ Nguyên Giáp
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Phan Thị Kim Phúc

Objects

  • War photographs
  • Cu Chi tunnels

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1955 to 1975. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?