![]() ![]() ![]() Fearing Saigon’s collapse, President Johnson escalates America’s military commitment, authorizing sustained bombing of the north and deploying ground troops in the south.Įpisode Four - Resolve (January 1966-June 1967)ĭefying American airpower, North Vietnamese troops and materiel stream down the Ho Chi Minh Trail into the south, while Saigon struggles to “pacify the countryside.” As an antiwar movement builds back home, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and Marines discover that the war they are being asked to fight in Vietnam is nothing like their fathers’ war.Įpisode Five - This Is What We Do (July 1967-December 1967)Īmerican casualties and enemy body counts mount as Marines face deadly North Vietnamese ambushes and artillery south of the DMZ and Army units chase an elusive enemy in the central highlands. With South Vietnam in chaos, hardliners in Hanoi seize the initiative and send combat troops to the south, accelerating the insurgency. ![]() As the increasingly autocratic Diem regime faces a growing communist insurgency and widespread Buddhist protests, a grave political crisis unfolds.Įpisode Three - The River Styx (January 1964-December 1965) President Kennedy inspires idealistic young Americans to serve their country and wrestles with how deeply to get involved in South Vietnam. Communists in the north aim to reunify the country, while America supports Ngo Dinh Diem’s untested regime in the south.Įpisode Two - Riding the Tiger (1961-1963) | begins at 10:30pm With the Cold War intensifying, Vietnam is divided in two at Geneva. After a long and brutal war, Vietnamese revolutionaries led by Ho Chi Minh end nearly a century of French colonial occupation. ![]()
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