3x60' | History/People | HD

GBR 2015

3DD

his series tells the gripping story of the Vietnam War, from the country's dynastic history, the impact of Christian missionaries and French colonialism, to the invasion of Japan during WWII, and the rise of Ho Chi Minh. How America's fear of communism started an unstoppable sequence of events that led to American troops entering under President Kennedy in 1961, escalating under Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 as the nation found itself embroiled in a war fought every night on TV generating a huge anti-war movement. By 1973 Nixon had resigned and America was forced to withdraw from Saigon on April 30, 1975.