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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
 
  Jan 08, 2026
 
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
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HIST 1620 - THE VIETNAM WAR


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to acquaint the student with American involvement in Southeast Asia, in particular with the second Indochina War. Some attempt will be made to provide a background of Vietnamese historical and cultural perspective. The major portion of the course will focus on American policy, at home and abroad, and the manner in which five American presidents tried to deal with the “Indochina problem”.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis


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