Why did the U. S. initially get involved in Vietnam after World
War II?
What was President Eisenhower's explanation of the "Domino
Theory"?
How were the Geneva Accords a temporary solution to the political
situation in Vietnam?
Why was Ho Chi Minh so popular in North Vietnam?
Why did the U. S. support the cancellation of Vietnam's unifying
election
in 1956?
Why was Diem's regime so unpopular?
Why did LBJ escalate our involvement in Vietnam?
What was the Tonkin Gulf Resolution? What power did it give
the president?
How did it lead to an even further escalation of the U. S. role in
Vietnam?
* Ho Chi Minh
* Hanoi
* Vietnimh
* Saigon
* "Domino
Theory"
* Vietcong
* Dien Bien Phu
* 17th parallel
* General Vo Nguyen
Giap
* Ho Chi Minh
Trail
* Geneva Accords
[1954]
* Tonkin Gulf
Resolution [1964]
Textbook --> pp. 889 - 894.
FILM --> clips from
"America's Century."
What differing opinions did President Johnson's advisers have
about Vietnam?
Why did the American public overwhelmingly support the Vietnam
War
in 1965?
Why did the U. S. forces have difficulty fighting the
Vietcong? What tactics did the Vietcong use that made them
hard to beat?
What were the key U. S. military strategies in Vietnam? How
affective were they?
What factors led to the low morale of U. S. troops by the late
1960s?
How did the Vietnam War affect the Great Society programs?
What was the "credibility gap"?
What were the effects of the nightly television coverage of the
Vietnam War?
* Robert McNamara
* Agent Orange
* Dean Rusk
* We had to
destroy the town in order
to save it!
* George Ball
*
"Living-Room War"
* General William
Westmoreland
* credibility
gap
* "War of
Attrition"
*
search-and-destroy missions
* Green Berets
* Sen. J.
William Fulbright [AR]
* napalm
* Operation
Rolling Thunder
Textbook --> pp. 895 - 900.
FILM --> clips from
"America's Century."
CDs --> "Ballad of the
Green Berets", "War!", "Fortunate
Son", "Eve of Destruction", and, if time permits,
several other protest songs of the 1960s.
What were some of the ways that young men could get a military
deferment during the Vietnam War?
Why were most of the American soldiers serving in Vietnam
minorities and lower-class whites.
What role did women play in the Vietnam War?
What concerns did the "New Left" movement voice about
American society?
Why did the protestors oppose the Vietnam War? What were
their main arguments?
How did the positions of the "doves" and the
"hawks" differ?
What problems did President Johnson face with his escalation
polity?
* deferments
* Free Speech
Movement [FSM]
* "grunts"
* Reserved
Officer Training Corps
[ROTC]
* "New
Left"
* Hell no,
we won't go!
* Students for a
Democratic Society
[SDS]
*
"doves"
* Tom Hayden
* 'hawks"
* Port Huron
Statement
* America--love
it or leave it!
Textbook --> pp. 901 - 906.
FILM --> clips from :America's
Century."
Why was the Tet Offensive a turning point in America's involvement
in the Vietnam War?
What role did the news media play in the perceptions formed by
Americans concerning the Tet Offensive?
Why did President Johnson decide not to run again in 1968 for a
second term as president?
Why was 1968 characterized as a year of "lost control"
in America?
How did the Democratic Party Convention in Chicago in the summer
of 1968 contribute to their defeat in the fall presidential
election? What were the other reasons for their loss of the
presidency?
On what issues did Richard Nixon campaign in 1968? Why did
he win the presidency?
* Tet Offensive
* Senator
Eugene McCarthy [MN]
* Hey, hey LBJ--how
many kids did you
kill today?!
* VP Hubert
Humphrey [MN]
* Walter Cronkite
* Mayor Richard
J. Daley [Chicago]
* If I've lost
Walter, then it's over. I've
lost Mr. Average Citizen!
* Governor
George Wallace [AL]
* Senator Robert F.
Kennedy [NY]
* Sirhan Sirhan
* June 5, 1968
* "white
backlash"
Textbook --> pp. 907 - 913.
FILM --> clips from
"America's Century".
What was the purpose of President Nixon's "Vietnamization"
policy?
What did President Nixon mean by "peace with honor" in
Vietnam?
Who made up what President Nixon called the "Silent
Majority" in this country?
Why did President Nixon send U. S. troops into Cambodia in
1970? What affect did this move have on American public
opinion?
How did the campus shootings at Kent State in Ohio and Jackson
State in Mississippi demonstrate the continued division within
America?
Why did the release of the Pentagon Papers hurt the Nixon
administration's war effort in Vietnam?
What role did Henry Kissinger play in the Nixon administration's
attempts to end the Vietnam War?
What was the ultimate fate of South Vietnam in 1975?
How were Vietnam veterans treated by the American public as they
returned home? Why was their experience different from that
experienced by returning veterans from America's other wars?
Why did Congress pass the War Powers Act in 1973?
In what ways did the Vietnam War alter American attitudes?
