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Real Time History

Season 2024 · Episode 11

Why the US Lost the Vietnam War

0.024mJune 21, 2024

In late April 1975, dramatic images from Saigon are beamed across the world. North Vietnamese troops proclaimed final victory. Just how did the US lose the Vietnam War?

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Episodes

Episode 1Search and Destroy: Vietnam War Tactics 1965-1967
Episode 2The Deadliest Job Of WW2? - US Bomber Crews 1943
Episode 3Why Germany Lost the Battle of the Atlantic
Episode 4Why the US Lost the Tet Offensive
Episode 5Why the Allies Lost The Battle of France
Episode 6Britain's Weird Vietnam War
Episode 71943: Turning Point of WW2 in Europe
Episode 8Nixon's Vietnam War: Why the US Left Vietnam
Episode 9Who Really Won the Korean War?
Episode 10How Did Israel End Up With Gaza and the West Bank? Six-Day War 1967
Episode 11Why the US Lost the Vietnam War
Episode 12Bio-Weapons in WW2: Japan's Revenge for Doolittle Raid
Episode 13The Indochina War 1945-1954
Episode 14Could Germany Invade Britain in WW2? (Operation Sea Lion)
Episode 15Forgotten Armies of the Vietnam War: Australia, Korea, China, USSR
Episode 16Desert Storm: Mission Accomplished or Missed Opportunity?
Episode 17Laos and Cambodia: Forgotten Fronts of the Vietnam War
Episode 18CIA Coup For Oil? - The 1953 Iran Coup
Episode 19Winter War 1939-40 - Soviet Invasion of Finland
Episode 20The Vietnam War 1955-1975
Episode 21Battle of Saipan 1944: Total War in the Pacific
Episode 22Downfall: The Battle of Berlin 1945