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Week 13 Nixon Ford-Carter Presidencies & Vietnam War Questions

 

Review the Recorded Lecture on the 1970s Nixon-Ford-Carter Presidencies

Review this PowerPoint Lecture: Decade of Decline 1970s

View this Documentary Film: “The American Experience ~ The Vietnam War”

PROMPT:

According to your sources, why and when did the United States get involved in Vietnam? When did our presence there escalate and why?

According to your sources, how and why was the Vietnam War NOT a war? What made it different then all other confrontations the US fought with enemies on  battlefields in prior wars?

According to your sources, why did Americans, who first favored our involvement in Vietnam, change their minds and want out of Vietnam? What legacies did the Vietnam War leave in American society?