About This Lesson
ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
WOULD YOU DISOBEY A WHITE HOUSE ORDER TO EVACUATE U.S. CITIZENS ONLY OR RISK TREASON CHARGES TO SAVE THE LIVES OF SOUTH VIETNAMESE CITIZENS?
Objectives: SWBAT analyze, evaluate, source and annotate excerpted primary and secondary sources on the Vietnam War with emphasis on building historical thinking skills necessary for the A.P. American Exam
Citations:
VIDEO – Last Days In Vietnam/PBS Documentary
(1:54:57 minutes – use last 30 minutes)
https://www.youtu.be/Zai5X3jd2dU
Part 1: Presidential Viewpoints on Vietnam War – Council on Foreign Relations
http://blogs.cfr.org/lindsay/2015/04/30/the-vietnam-war-in-forty-quotes/
Part 2 – Oral Histories (South Vietnamese Civilians/American Soldiers)
First Days – Stories of Vietnamese Refugees
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/lastdays/firstdayshistoryproject/
American Soldier’s Stories – Operation Frequent Wind – Audiophile (12:58 minutes)
http://www.npr.org/2010/09/01/129578263/at-war-s-end-u-s-ship-rescued-south-vietnam-s-navy
Part 3 – Henry Kissinger Quotation Interpretation Activity (attached)
