Please write a 3-4 (double spaced) page essay addressing the following:
What do you think was more important in shaping American involvement in Vietnam, external foreign policy concerns or domestic political considerations? Why? Provide a clear thesis and defend it with historical information drawn from the course materials.
- Course materials ( include majority of these specific points)
- McGeorge Burdy
- Robert McNamara
- President John F Kennedy
- Ho Chi Minh Trail
- Henry Cabot Lodge
- Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962
- Viet Cong
- Dean Dusk
- William C Westmoreland
- Vo Nguyen Giap