Summary of three books and two online sources

 The war the United States lost was not only a tragedy to the U.S. but also caused much hardship in East Asia. The Vietnam war affected many people quite severely and some are still affected by the aftermath of the war to this day.

On page fifteen of Joe Allen's book " Vietnam the (last) war the U.S. lost" it describes how world war two started for countries in different parts of the world. "For most Europeans and Americans, the Second World War began with the German invasion of Poland in 1939 or the japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. For the people of East Asia, it started with the Japanese invasion of China in 1931". The large regions of East Asia were under colonial powers for hundreds of years before World War two. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor the Japanese showed their military power by conquering these regions with ease and replaced the colonial powers with Japanese control. To further my research on the Vietnam War I located two more books to cross reference my information from the first book. The second book  "Vietnam Ten Years After" by editor  Robert Emmet Long. This book talks about the struggles that Vietnam faces ten years after the tragic Vietnam War. The third book "The Vietnam Experience: The North" written by Edward Doyle, Samuel Lipsman, and Terrence Maitland, which talked about the Vietnam in a different perspective by capturing the view the Vietnamese in the north had of the war. To gather more information I looked elsewhere to find information. I turned to the internet and found one scholarly journal and another reference from a website. The scholarly journal "A Brief Survey of POWs in Twentieth Cenetury Wars 2013" by  George M. Watson Jr and Jacob Neufeld. This journal discusses the treatment and casualties of Prisoners of War during the Twentieth Century. My fifth resource was titled Battlefield: Vietnam Timleine which was posted on pbs.org. This site provided a timeline of a large number of events that took place during the Vietnam War.

After cross referencing a few articles I came to the conclusion that Vietnam suffered greatly during the war and was even affected many years after the war. My references provided information on both the Vietnam and American perspective of the Vietnam war. I found sources that gave statistics of POWs during twentieth Century wars and a timeline with major events that occurred during the Vietnam war.

Works Cited Page
Allen, Joe. Vietnam: The (Last) War the U.S. Lost. Chicago, IL: Haymarker Books, 2008. 9 Oct. 2013.

Long, Robert E, ed. Vietnam Ten Years After. New York: The H.W. Wlson Company, 1986. 9 Oct. 2013.

Doyle, Edward, Samual Lipsman, and Terrence Maitland. The Vietnam Experiance: The Nort. Boston, MA: Boston Publishing Company, 1986. 9 Oct. 2013. 

Watson Jr, George M., and Jacob Neufeld. A Brief Survey of POWs in Twentieth Century Wars 2013 60.2 (2013): N. pag. Web. 9 Oct. 2013. <http://web.ebscohost.com.libproxy.stcloudstate.edu/ehost/detail?vid=6&sid=0e24f789-e1cf-4182-9000-7c92a36f0e4e%40sessionmgr10&hid=12&bdata=#db=aph&AN=89444922>.

"Battlefield:Viatnam Timeline." PBS, n.d. Web. 9 Oct. 2013. <http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/timeline/index.html>.