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Summary Of Lyndon Johnson's War

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My report is on a book by Michael H. Hunt called Lyndon Johnson’s War written in 1996. Michael Hunt is a historian who works for the University of North Colorado and was also there during the Vietnam War. Hunt’s book was written to talk about former President Lyndon Johnson during the Vietnam war. The book’s purpose is to show us some of the causes and consequences of the Vietnam war on America and the Vietnamese people. It also shows us how resilient the natives were against the U.S. and their reasons for wanting to be a communist nation. The book is arranged chronologically from the 1945-1968, telling us how events like the Cold War brought to existence the Vietnam War. My book revolves mainly around Vietnam and their movement toward …show more content…

With the help of his Communist colleagues, Ho founded the Viet Minh, which is short for the Vietnamese Independence League.

Ho Chi Minh had 3 different solutions to bringing Vietnam out from French rule which he called brocade bags. Ho drew the term “from a well-known Chinese tale widely read in Vietnam in which not one but three such bags figured as repositories of ingenious solutions to daunting problems confronting their owner.” (page 23) His three brocade bags were: the ideas of Lenin, patriotism, and a populist program. With them, Ho drew a mass base of support from the general population. One of the struggles Ho face with was that he did not have enough proletariats to help make a good spearhead towards change. With the use of brocade bags Ho Chi Minh began making headway. After an Allied victory in 1945, Japan disarmed themselves in March 1945 and arrested their French collaborators giving Ho the perfect chance to move …show more content…

One of the Cold War’s most prominent is The Ugly American. Written in 1958, this book was a best seller, filled with different stories about why communism was winning and what must be done about it. The authors of the book The Ugly American used one main argument for its readers: “communism is a monolithic enemy whose fundamental values challenged those of the United States and whose ultimate goal was world domination.” (page 4) There stories were one of main forces driving people like Kennedy and Johnson to go and “save” Vietnam from

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