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EPISODE · Jan 26, 2026 · 1H 56M

One, Two, Three, What Were We Fighting in Vietnam For?

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Give me a Y! Give me a D! Give me an H! Give me a Q! What's that spell?Your Doctor Has Questions takes on the Vietnam War. Why did we go there? What happened before we did? Who was involved?From around 1958 to 1975, the US fought a bloody and violent war against a good chunk of the Vietnamese people, ostensibly to avoid Asia turning red. We take a look at what happened in Vietnam and around the world that led us there. Sources:Country Joe & the FishHanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam, Lien-Hang T. NguyenEmbers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, Fredrik Logevall

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