A war too long : the USAF in Southeast Asia, 1961-1975 /

Mode of access: Internet.

A new world a new American foreign policy: the Carter administration, Nicaragua, and the legacy of the Vietnam War, 1977-1981

The impact of the Vietnam War conditioned the Carter administration’s response to the Nicaraguan revolution in ways that reduced US engagement with both sides of the conflict. It made the countries of Latin America counter the US approach and find their own solution to the crisis, and allowed Cuba to play a greater role in guiding the overthrow of Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. This thesis re-evaluates Carter’s policy through the legacy of the Vietnam War, because US executive anxieties about military intervention, Congress’s increasing influence, and US public concerns about the nation’s global responsibilities, shaped the Carter approach to Nicaragua. Following a background chapter, the Carter administration’s policy towards Nicaragua is evaluated, before and after the fall of Somoza in July 1979. The extent of the Vietnam influence on US-Nicaraguan relations is developed by researching government documents on the formation of US policy, including material from the Jimmy Carter Library, the Library of Congress, the National Security Archive, the National Archives and Records Administration, and other government and media sources from the United Nations Archives, New York University, the New York Public Library, the Hoover Institution Archives, Tulane University and the Organization of American States. The thesis establishes that the Vietnam legacy played a key role in the Carter administration’s approach to Nicaragua. Before the overthrow of Somoza, the Carter administration limited their influence in Nicaragua because they felt there was no immediate threat from communism. The US feared that an active role in Nicaragua, without an established threat from Cuba or the Soviet Union, could jeopardise congressional support for other foreign policy goals deemed more important. The Carter administration, as a result, pursued a policy of non-intervention towards the Central American country. After the fall of Somoza, and the establishment of a new government with a left wing element represented by the Sandinistas, the Carter administration emphasised non-intervention in a military sense, but actively engaged with the new Nicaraguan leadership to contain the potential communist influence that could spread across Central America in the wake of the Nicaraguan revolution.

Records relating to American prisoners of war and missing in action from the Vietnam War /

Includes index.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the War in Vietnam, 1960-1968 /

Shipping list no.: 2010-0179-P (pt. 3).

Estimative products on Vietnam, 1948-1975.

Accompanying CD-ROM contains full text of the 38 papers included in the printed text and 138 other declassified documents.

Protocol for epidemiologic studies of the health of Vietnam veterans /

Mode of access: Internet.

Scientific research on the health of Vietnam veterans [microform] : hearing before the Subcommittee on Hospitals and Health Care of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session, June 8, 1988.

"Serial no. 100-51."

Postservice mortality among Vietnam veterans /

Item 494-L-6

Data on Vietnam era veterans.

Description based on: Sept. 1977; title from cover.

Selected bibliography : post-traumatic stress disorder with special attention to Vietnam veterans /

Item 983-A

Adjudication of claims against Vietnam [microform] : hearing and markup before the Subcommittees on Asian and Pacific Affairs and on International Economic Policy and Trade of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session, on H.R. 2200, July 27 and October 25, 1979.

Reuse of record except for individual research requires license from Congressional Information Service, Inc.

Vietnam from cease-fire to capitulation /

Mode of access: Internet.

Impact of the war in Southeast Asia on the U.S. economy. Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, second session ...

Hearings held Apr. 15-Aug. 13, 1970.

The unknown serviceman of the Vietnam era /

Mode of access: Internet.