Vietnam

Links: Ho Chi Minh: [|Program for a Communist Indochina] [|Vietcong Program] who wrote the doc •summarize main points • what important information does the doc give you • explain significance of the document: consider the effects it may have had • explain what the doc adds to the understanding of the War

- What seems to be the focus of the doc, independence or spreading communism? - What is the attitude towards the US in this document? - do you see anything "wrong " in this document? Meaning do the goals seem just? - who or what country do you think has the right to resist these goals, if anyone? [|Gulf of Tonkin Resolution] - How does the US justify escalation? -What are the stated US goals? -What does it authorize the President to do? -Does the resolution have a firm expiration date? [|Refecltions]-- read the Five Poems about Vietnam **by Leroy V. Quintana** [|Why did people go?] [|Terminology] Stats The Rooster [|The War in Pictures] []

Important web site T[|HE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE]
__Homework__ Complete the primary source exercise on page 980. Read section 2 chapter 33- Describe and evaluate the reasons the US escalated (defined in your book) the war in Vietnam in 2 paragraphs, printed ad brought to class. __Wed April 8-__ 1) Read the reflections link above 2)Write a two page letter home as a US soldier based on what we have learned in class today. Base you letter on the primary sources, class discussion, and pages 985-989. Format standard MS word 1 inch margins, double spaced, 12 point times new roman font. __Friday april 10__ HW chapter 33 sec 3 2,3,4 __Monday/Tuesday__ sec 4 #2 and 4