Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam (Logevall, 2012)
1954 · Resource
Fredrik Logevall's Pulitzer-winning history of the French defeat and American escalation.
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Around 1954
- Apartheid (1948)
- Korean War (1950)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)