1. Period 8 (1945 – 1980)
Uncivil Wars: Liberal Crisis and Conservative Growth,
(Days 4 - 5)

2. Warm-Up: Assessing Prior Knowledge
What do you know about the Vietnam War?
What do you want to know about the Vietnam War?

3. CNN’s The Cold War: “Vietnam” (1954 - 1968)
While watching consider the given guiding questions (treat them as notes) and the following BIG QUESTION…
With what purpose did America become involved (and extend involvement) in Vietnam? How did these decisions impact American society?

4. Vietnam War Vocabulary
If you do not recognize a term or cannot supply a definition of a term, define the term using a textbook and/or own technology…
anti-war protestors
Pentagon Papers
Henry Kissinger
POWs
My Lai massacre
Paris Peace Agreement
Reunification
Tet Offensive
Domino Theory
draft dodgers
Cambodian and Laos incursions
Hawks
doves
escalation
Ho Chi Minh
Dien Bien Phu
Geneva Agreements (1954)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Vietcong
Vietnamization

5. Connection Map
Vietnam War
Why?
How?

6. Warm-Up: Class Review - People’s History (Ch
Warm-Up: Class Review - People’s History (Ch. 18–The Impossible Victory: Vietnam)
What previous knowledge was confirmed in the text?
What new knowledge was put forth in the text?
What surprised you about the text?
What confused you about the text?

7. The Cold War in Asia
If someone says it better, let them say it… CRASH COURSE #38
While watching, complete the fill-in notes!

8. Document Analysis
Read “Stewart Alsop Senses the End of an Era” in American Spirit (pgs )
Answer the following questions…
Why did radical movements well up in the 1960s?
How truly radical was it?
What legacy have the 1960s movements left behind?
Are the issues on which they focused on dead?

9. The New Frontier and Great Society
Review the given overview of New Frontier and Great Society programs
Using the overview of New Frontier and Great Society programs, discuss (and reach an agreed upon answer) the related “issues” in groups of 2 – 3
EVERY PERSON NEEDS TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS ON A SEPARATE PIECE OF PAPER

10. Class Discussion
How are the New Deal, New Frontier, and Great Society linked? Cite specific programs and policies that support your argument…