Vietnam           

Helpful Websites:
World Fact Book--Vietnam
Battlefield--Vietnam -- from PBS
The Wars for Viet Nam -- from Vassar College
Vietnam: Yesterday and Today -- from Oakton Community College
The Vietnam Project -- Texas Tech University
The Vietnam War -- from the History Place
Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--Vietnam-- from Mt. Holyoke College
Guided Readings: Vietnam War -- from the University of Houston
About the Vietnam War (1960-1975) -- from College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Vietnam War Resources -- from Georgia Tech College

General Information for Countries (Searchable by country name)
Country Information
Background Notes -- From the U.S. State Department
CIA World Factbook -- Country information from the CIA
Country Studies -- From the Library of Congress
Ethnologue -- Information on languages spoken worldwide
GeographyIQ -- "An online world atlas packed with geographic, economic, political, historical and cultural information."
Portals to the World -- Detailed information and links, from the Library of Congress
World Flag Database

Government Sites
Chiefs of State -- Lists rulers and heads of states, ambassadors to the U.S.
Governments on the WWW

International Statistics
CIA World Factbook -- Country information from the CIA
Global Statistics -- Country-by-Country statistical data, from GeoHive
Infonation -- Statistical data for countries in the United Nations
International Statistical Agencies -- From the U.S. Census Bureau
Population Reference Bureau -- Numerous reports available

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Some helpful websites (not from the "free" web):
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Online access to World Book.

You will need your public library card number and PIN to use the many subcription databases available to you here.

Some interesting quotes:
"We should declare war on North Vietnam....We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas." -- Ronald Reagan, 1965
"I'm not going to be the first American President to lose a war."--Richard Nixon, 1969
"Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place."--John F. Kennedy, 1961
"Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that." --Richard Nixon, 1969
"I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies."--Benjamin Spock, 1988
"If Americans do not want ot support us anymore, let them go, get out! Let them forget their humanitarian promises!" --Nguyen Van Thieu, April 1975
"We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves." --Lyndon Johnson, Oct. 1964

Bibliography Sites
MLA Style
Citation Machine
Citing Sources -- from Oregon School Library Information System
KnightCite -- from Calvin College
MLA Style Guide -- from Capital Community Technical College, Hartford, CT.
Noodle Tools Quick Cite -- from NoodleTools, Inc.
Soquel High School's Citation Guide
Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format -- From Purdue Univ.

Page last updated 5/10 by Madeline Britton, Librarian