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  Week 1:   The Cold War

Jul 4   1:  The Character of War

Jul 5   2:  Containment

Jul 6   3:  Nuclear Stalemate

Jul 7   4:  Cuban Missile Crisis



  Week 2:   War of a Different Kind

Jul 11   5:  Background to a Thirty Year War

Jul 12   6:  An Unconventional Challenge: In Search of a Strategy

Jul 13   7:  Logistics: Bases & Bicycles

Jul 14   8:  Exam 1   &   Out-of-Country War



  Week 3:   Into the Morass

Jul 18   9:  America Involved

Jul 19  10:  The Widening War

Jul 20  11:  The Air Wars

Jul 21  12:  The Helicopter War



  Week 4:   War on Many Fronts

Jul 25  13:  The GI's War

Jul 26  14:  Great Society to Great Quagmire

Jul 27  15:  "The Path to War"

Jul 28  16:  Tet 1968: The Turning Point



  Week 5:   The Tide Turns

Aug 1  17:  "The Path to War" - II

Aug 2  18:   Home Front

Aug 3  19:  Exam 2   &  Nixon & Vietnamization

Aug 4  20:  End & Epilogue



  Week 6:   Legacies of Vietnam

Aug 8  21:  Legacies of the Vietnam War

Aug 9  22:  Vietnam in the American Psyche

Aug 10  23:  The Great Debate

Aug 11  24:  Vietnam & Afghanistan



Aug 12    Final Exam:   Friday,   August 12,   11:15 - 2:05,   Linbury Room


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