TURNING POINTS IN THE VIETNAM WAR.

VIETNAM; UNITED States

The author comments on the turning points in the involvement of the U.S. in the Vietnam War. She notes that major issues about the turning points concerns the time when the U.S. became committed to large-scale intervention and the time when the U.S. had to de-escalate. She mentions that the resignation of Robert McNamara as Secretary of Defence marked the need for the country to de-escalate. She examines whether former Presidents Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and John Fitzgerald had the opportunity to end such involvement.