Tuesday, 8 February 2011

History Teaching Resources: The Vietnam War

Vietnam War Complete Pack

(Vietnam War Complete Pack - History teaching resources featuring 70 slides)

Key Stage : 4
KS4/GCSE History Teaching Resources: The Vietnam War Complete Pack is a 70 slide powerpoint with 33 worksheets that explores the Vietnam War in great depth and detail.  The pack includes all 5 of Teacher-of-History.com's Vietnam resources incluiding: Kennedy and Vietnam, US involvement in Vietnam,  US Military Strategy in Vietnam, The Growth of Opposition to the War in America, Vietnamization and Peace Negotiations. For a more detailed insight into these history teaching resources read the resources breakdown below and preview the PPT slides by clicking on the preview images at the bottom of the page.
Kennedy and Vietnam
This teacher of history resource focuses on President Kennedy and his support for President Diem of South Vietnam.  The resources could provide basis for the first lesson of the Vietnam War depth study.  The teacher of history resource contains several activities that are designed to allow students to identify the main developments that finally enabled President Kennedy to withdraw his support for Diem and begin further involvement in Vietnam.  The resource allows students to establish and explain links between the complex series of events of 1963.
US involvement in Vietnam
This teacher of history resource includes a chronological sequence of increasing US involvement that can be developed into the structure and content for an essay.  The teacher of history resource contains several activities that are designed to allow students to identify the main developments that finally enabled President Johnson to begin full scale military involvement in Vietnam.  The resource allows students to trace the increasing US involvement back to the 1950s and to identify financial, political and military involvement.
US Military Strategy in Vietnam
These lessons include activities that focus on the US response to guerrilla warfare, which can be developed intothe structure and content for an essay.  The teacher of history resource contains several activities that are designed to allow students to identify the main strategies and tactics the USA employed to win the war.  The resource allows students to analyse the effects of US military strategy and consider their impact on the eventual outcome of the war
The Growth of Opposition to the War in America
A chronological sequence of increasing opposition to the war, which can be developed into the structure and content for an essay.  The teacher of history resource contains several differentiated activities that are designed to allow students to identify the main developments that led to opposition including the role of the media.
Vietnamization
Resources explore Nixon's policy of Vietnamization.  Discuss reasons why it was successful and why it failed.
Peace Negotiations
Resources include a detailed explanation of the Vietnam peace negotiations to end the USA’s involvement in the Vietnam War. The teaching resources contain PowerPoint based activities that are designed to allow students to identify the main sequence of events and main developments of the peace negotiations and a number of studentworksheets. Activities also ask students to consider who gained the most and least out of the peace before making a judgement.

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