The Vietnam War
BRIGHT MIND PROF
The Vietnam War
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Digital History textbook:
Vietnam War, http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=18&smtID=2 (Links to an external site.)
In preparation for the final exam, be able to describe (what is it and when was it?) and analyze (what is its wider significance to the history of the United States?):
Ho Chi Minh; Dien Bien Phu; Ngo Dinh Diem; Gulf of Tonkin resolution; Tet Offensive; "Vietnamization"; Anti-war demonstrations; The Vietnam War and American Culture; Le Ly Hayslip; My Lai massacre; 26th Amendment; Khmer Rouge
Select significant passages from at least three of the following primary sources for your Primary Source Annotation:
"Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force" (published in the New York Times in 1971), https://www.archives.gov/research/pentagon-papers
Peter Davis, dir., Hearts and Minds (1974), https://archive.org/details/HeartsAndMinds1974
Wallace Terry, Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History (orig. pub. 1984), (excerpts) click HERE
Le Ly Hayslip, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places (orig. pub. 1989), (excerpts) click HERE
"Vietnam War U.S. Military Fatal Casualty Statistics," U.S. National Archives, https://www.archives.gov/research/military/vietnam-war/casualty-statistics
Post Primary Source Annotation and Comments on at least five other students' annotations
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