Vietnam War

Walter L. Hixson is the History Department at the University of Akron. His books include Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture and the Cold War, 1945-1961, St. Martin's Press, 1997 and George F. Kennan, Cold War Iconoclast, Columbia University Press, 1989, (Contemporary American History Series) for which he received the Bernath Prize given annually by the Society of Historials of American Foreign Relations. He has also authored numerous scholarly articles and essays.

• 1. Smith, Ralph B. the Japanese period in Indochina and the coup of 9 March 1945, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 9 [1978]; 2. Chesneaux, Jean The historical background of Vietnamese communism, government and opposition 4 [1969]; 3. Lafebar, Walter Roosevelt, Churchill, and Indochina - 1942-45, American Historical Review 80 [1975]; 4. Herring, George C. the Truman administration and the restoration of French sovereignty in Indochina, Diplomatic History 1 [1977]; 5. Schaller, Michael, securing the great crescent - occupied Japan and the origins of containment in Southeast Asia, Journal of American History 69 [1982]; 6. Thorne, Christopher Indochina and Anglo-American relations, 1942-1945, Pacific Historical Review 45 [1978]; 7. Rotter, Andrew J., the triangular route to Vietnam - the United States, Great Britain, and Southeast Asia, 1945-1950, The International History Review 6 [1984]; 8. Ovendale, Ritchie Britain, the United States, and the Cold War in Southeast Asia, 1949-1950, International Affairs 58 [1982]; 9. Melby, John F. Vietnam-1950, Diplomatic History 6 [1982]; 10. Hess, Gary R., the first amendment commitment in Indochina - the acceptance of the "Bao Dai Solution", 1950 Diplomatic History 2 [1978]; 11. Hammer, Ellen J., the Bao Dai experiment, Pacific Affairs 23 [1950]; 12. Herring, George C. and Richard H. Immerman Eisenhower, Dulles and Dienbienphu - the day we didn't go to war revisited, Journal of American History 71 [1984]; 13. Immerman, Richard H. The United States and the Geneva conference - a new look, Diplomatic History 14N [1990]; 14. Anderson, David L.J. Lawton Collins, John Foster Dulles and the Eisenhower administrations 'Point of No Return'in Vietnam Diplomatic History 12 [1988]; 15. Pelz, Stephen E., John F. Kennedy's 1961 Vietnam War decisions, Journal of Strategic Studies 4 [1981].