EPISODE · Aug 16, 2026 · 42 MIN
The Cold War: The Vietnam War Part 1 (1954-1970)
from JTalkin' · host Dr. J
The Cold War was not so cold in Southeast Asia for the twenty years of the 1950s through the 1970s. Hundreds of thousands of people perished in a civil war and a war of ideologies. What prompted America to enter into this area of the world where it had no real vital interests, other than trying to stop the spread of communism? What were the events leading up to it, and how did the United States handle its involvement through the early 1970s? Listen in to Dr. J give his take on this awful chapter in our nation's (and Vietnam's) history. In the next podcast Dr. J will wrap up our America's involvement in Vietnam, as well as a follow up to what happened in southeast Asia after the US left.
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The Cold War was not so cold in Southeast Asia for the twenty years of the 1950s through the 1970s. Hundreds of thousands of people perished in a civil war and a war of ideologies. What prompted America to enter into this area of the world where it had no real vital interests, other than trying to stop the spread of communism? What were the events leading up to it, and how did the United States handle its involvement through the early 1970s? Listen in to Dr. J give his...
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