Tuesday, July 13, 2021, United States History: Day 18

First Hour Independent Work 

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Agenda, Attendance, and Pledge of Allegiance.

Standards: 11.3, 11.3.4, 11.9.4

Objectives: SWBAT

• Describe the counterculture movement.
• Analyze the countercultures impact on American Society.
• Describe the causes and effects of the Vietnam War 

Reading 25 minutes:  Domino Theory and Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Reading: 

1. Please summarize each. 
2. Relate the speech and the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 

Key Terms 25 minutes: Define and Significance 

1. Ho Chi Minh
2. Domino Theory
3. guerillas
4. Dien Bien Phu
5. Ngo Dinh Diem
6. Vietcong
7. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
8. Napalm
9. Agent Orange
10. Ho Chi Minh Trail

First Hour Meeting 

Lecture 20 minutes: Vietnam War, Vietnam Divides the Nation & Pulling out of Vietnam

Independent Work 
Research 25 minutes: Vietnam War 

• Read Article
• Watch at least three videos
• View all pictures
• listen to at least two speeches

Use the Research to answer the following questions pointing out specific facts gained by your research using the provided website. 

1. What was the Vietnam War about? 
2. Was the Vietnam War worth it? 
3. What are some consequences of the Vietnam War?

Activity 45 minutes: 

• Mapping the war. Examine the maps of the different phases of the Vietnam War. Using the information from these maps, prepare a single map that shows what you think are the most important events and locations in the war -- in other words, the things that someone who has never heard of the war would most need to know. (You can show events from different years on a single map by creating a numbered series of call-out boxes, each describing a different event and with its own date.

Geography Skills 10 minutes: The Tet Offensive, 1968 p. 748-750
Quotations/Statements from the 1960s-1970s  40 minutes:

1. Find a quote from a prominent person during the Vietnam Era 
2. Put on a page with a picture accompanying the statement.

Second hour on Google Meet 
Vocabulary 15 minutes: Ch. 17.4 Vocab
Study Guide:

1. Please identify Ho Chi Minh and his relationship to the Vietminh and the significance of Vietnamese Nationalism and Dien Bien Phu.
2. What were the Geneva Accords and how does it relate to America’s involvement in Vietnam?
3. Please be sure to mention America’s policy of Containment and the Domino Theory.
4. Please describe the difference between the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administration’s policies towards American involvement in Vietnam.
5. Please describe how the Tet Offensive and Pentagon Papers challenged Johnson’s and America’s credibility for fighting a war in Vietnam.
6. What were some characteristics of the Antiwar Movement and what policy of the federal government caused the differences between the antiwar sentiment during the Vietnam War in contrast towards the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq?
7. Vietcong-
8. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution-
9. Hawks and Doves-
10. Vietnamization-
11. War Powers Act-