The First Vietnam Crisis: Chinese Communist Strategy and United States Involvement, 1953-1954

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Preface xiii
• Contents xxi
• Abbreviations xxiii
• 1. The Sino-Vietnamese Relationship 1
• 2. Out One Door and in Another: The American Commitment 20
• 3. Washington and Paris: The Political Tangle 35
• 4. Strategy: The New Look and "Massive Retaliation" 53
• 5. The Road to Dienbienphu: Diplomacy and Strategy, February -- March 1954 68
• 6. The Problem of Intervention: April 1954 92
• 7. Toward a Settlement 116
• 8. The Crisis in Vietnam 131
• 9. Epilogue: The Indochina Legacy 156
• Notes 167
• Index 219