Homework - due Monday 4/27/2009

Interview your parents, your grandparents, or other adults who remember the Vietnam War to find out what they thought about the United States’ involvement in this conflict. The people you interview should have been old enough to be aware of the situation in Vietnam and develop opinions about it. Pose the following questions and add one or more of your own. Type your questions and answers – you must submit your interview by email, blog comment or on flash drive by Monday at 1pm.

If you cut and paste your interview and leave it as a comment on this blog, please use your first name and last initial and not your whole name(you don't want perverts hunting you down via Internet). Same with your interviewee.

-What is your name, what do you do, and how old are you?
-Where were you living in 1969?
-What did you think about the Vietnam War in 1969? Why did you have this opinion?
-What did you think of President Nixon in 1969? Why did you have this opinion?
-What is your opinion of the Vietnam War today? Have you changed your opinion since 1969? Why or why not?

Classwork for Thursday, 4/23/2009

Do Whatcha Know!
Label this map of southeast Asia and complete both questions.



Intro to New Material
In class, we watched a video about the causes, U.S. involvement in, and eventual end of the Vietnam War. As we watched, we defined the following terms:
Viet Cong
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Lyndon B. Johnson
Tet Offensive
Vietnamization

Learn more about the Vietnam War here.


Guided Practice


Independent Practice


Learning Log
1. Who fought against whom in the Vietnam War?
2. Why did the U.S. get involved?
3. Was the war popular with Americans? Why or why not?
4. How did the Vietnam War end?