Vietnam

=VIETNAM - THE PATH TO WAR =

You all know that the United States was involved in a major military conflict in Vietnam during the Cold War ... but why? What was America's "path to war"? Using the resources below and __Creating America__, your task this evening is to write a description in YOUR OWN WORDS of the causes of American involvement in Southeast Asia. Pretend you are writing it as a summary for on online encyclopedia or textbook. Your description should ...
 * be between two and four complete, well written paragraphs
 * contain the following terms - France, Ho Chi Minh, communism, Ngo Dinh Diem, military advisors, Gulf of Tonkin, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Rolling Thunder
 * be IN YOUR OWN WORDS (remember, it's easy to check this online)
 * contain two images THAT RELATE TO YOUR WRITING
 * Should end with the first Marines landing in Vietnam in 1965

Need some help? How about ... //Creating America// [|This cool animation] [|Into Vietnam (Overview)] from ABC-CLIO [|Timeline of the Vietnam War] [|Vietnam Online Timeline] Causes of the Vietnam War video below

and this voicethread, made by your favorite 8th grade American history teacher that you have this year (I like to limit my competition)

Japan was first bombed by Harry Truman. That will end the second world war. Korea was first a nation that was united. Then France came in and took over and then devided in the 17th paralel until France left. Many people did not like the communism idea they liked how they were peaceful beforehand. Ho Chi Minh,was the leader of the army in the Northern region. Ngo Dinh Diem was the prime minister of the southern region. They were against eachother and did not like eachother. The southern part had an election and the north part did not have an election and it caused even more tension then before.

After Dwight D. Eisenhower sent 900 people Kennedy sent 11,000 more by the end of 1962. Many Korean were killed our wounded and three military advisors were killed. Gulf of Tonkin was a clash between the navy between the US and the forces of North Korea. It was a turning point in the coldwar in which they turned them back and stuck in the middle.



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