Students were reminded that they should have turned in their Progresive Era Essay before break.
Their was a lecture introducing the Vietnam War.
Some key vocubulary terms included:
Conventional Warfare = "set piece" warfare = tanks; battleships; aircraft carriers; big armies
Unconventional Warfare = guerilla warfare= "little" war = asymetrical warfare
The lecture included how Vietnam was part of the nightly news; Vietnam was pivotal in that it foreced the United States to recognize that it had lost a war.
Some classes began viewing a History Channel documentary on the war. All students were advised that some of the documentary was disturbing and were offerred an alternative written assignment.
Students were asked to view the documentary with an eye to answering the following:
Historically who had goverened in Vietnam?
What was the "causae belli" of American involvement in Vietnam?
What evidence is there that the US was the aggressor ? responding to aggression? acting as "world police"? in Vietnam.
What was the US strategy in the Vietnam War?
Was this strategy effective?
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