The Vietnam War: everything you wanted to know

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🗓️ 9 May 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Historian Mark Atwood Lawrence responds to listener questions and popular internet search queries on one of the most seismic events of the Cold War, American history and the history of Southeast Asia. He explores some of the biggest debates surrounding the United States’ failure to stem the advance of communism in Vietnam. (Ad) Mark Atwood Lawrence is the author of The Vietnam War: A Concise International History (OUP USA, 2021). Buy it now on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vietnam-War-Concise-International-Introductions/dp/0199753938/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-hexpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:50.4	I'm Ellie Cawthorne. The Vietnam War was one of the most seismic events of the Cold War,
1:00.1	American history and of course the history of Southeast Asia. Unsurprisingly, it's still a subject of fierce debate.
1:08.3	Why did the US embark on this ultimately futile military adventure? Why was American
1:13.2	power not able to prevail as it had done before? And might things have been different if
1:18.3	JFK had lived? Well, in the latest and out everything you wanted to know series, we put these
1:23.7	questions and many more to the Vietnam expert, Mark Atwood Lawrence. He was joined in
1:29.0	conversation by BBC History Magazine editor Rob Atar. Welcome to the latest in our Everything
1:35.1	You Wanted to Know series, where we combine your questions submitted via social media with some popular
1:41.1	internet search queries. Today we're talking about the Vietnam War, and our expert
1:45.9	is Mark Atwood Lawrence, who is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of
1:51.8	Texas in Austin. He's an expert on the Cold War and the author of a 2008 history of the Vietnam War.
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