American+Combat+Missions+in+Vietnam

=**The American Combat Mission During the Vietnam War** =  1) Complete your Scavenger Hunt Worksheet with the information provided in this PBS Interactive Map: @http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/maps/map_pop_intro.html

2) Watch this youtube video clip of the United States droping Napalm. media type="youtube" key="67K1tt-V-lc?rel=0" height="349" width="425" Go to the class blog and respond to the question here.

Information above provided from the Congressional Research Service: @http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.pdf
 * ~ Total American deaths by war ||
 * American Civil War ||    |||| 625,000 ||
 * World War II ||    |||| 405,399 ||
 * World War I ||    |||| 116,516 ||
 * Vietnam ||    |||| 58,151 ||
 * Korean War ||    |||| 53,686 ||
 * American Revolutionary War ||    |||| 25,000 ||
 * War of 1812 ||    |||| 20,000 ||
 * Mexican American War ||    |||| 13,283 ||
 * War on terror* ||    |||| 5,491 ||
 * Philippine–American War ||    ||  |||| 4,196 ||
 * Philippine–American War ||    ||  |||| 4,196 ||

Place your political cartoon from the class Moodle under here:

Did the United States lose the Vietnam War?

How does Hollywood remember the Vietnam War? media type="youtube" key="CsyYvFgdb5c?rel=0" height="349" width="425"

Write a short one page paper on how Hollywood has remembered a war that the United States has been involved in. Are there any differences in what is shown on the silver screen compared to what our history books tell us happened? Is this a good or bad thing? Upload the paper to Moodle.

//__Grades:__// media type="custom" key="9113504" 1. Students will complete a scavenger hunt worksheet, found on the Moodle link, based on the interactive map found on the Wiki. http://edt315vietnam.wikispaces.com/American+Combat+Missions+in+Vietnam [] 2. Students will watch a video of Napalm being used via the Wiki. Students will learn about Napalm and the use of Agent Zero. Students will respond to a question on the blog. http://edt315vietnam.wikispaces.com/American+Combat+Missions+in+Vietnam [] 3. Students will view the death tolls and compare them to other wars the US has engaged in. 4. Students will find and post a political cartoon on the class wiki via the link on the class Moodle. http://edt315vietnam.wikispaces.com/American+Combat+Missions+in+Vietnam [] 5. Students will debate whether or not the United States lost the war on the class blog. [] 6. Students will view a clip from Forest Gump on the class wiki depicting the war. They will write a short paper for homework describing how Hollywood remembers the war. Is it the same? Students will upload this 1 page paper on Moodle. http://edt315vietnam.wikispaces.com/American+Combat+Missions+in+Vietnam [] Assessment from the Moodle (the scavenger hunt): 1. Name the anti-communist military alliance organized by John Foster Dulles in 1954 to promote U.S. interests in this region of the world. 2. What did President Nixon call his policy to replace U.S. ground troops with South Vietnamese? 3. Ho Chi Minh modeled the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam's 1946 statement of national independence after which country's? 4. Which country provided up to 80% of the cost of France's military effort to restore its colonial rule in 1946-54? 5. Name the lengthy North Vietnamese supply route that started in the north and ended in South Vietnam. 6. Lt. William Calley Jr. was convicted of leading a massacre of South Vietnamese men, women and children in what village? 7. What is the popular name given the 1964 congressional resolution giving President Johnson a proxy for a formal declaration of war? 8. Name the 1968 communist military campaign that turned U.S. public opinion decisively against the war. 9. What is the popular name given the harmful defoliant used by U.S. forces during the conflict? 10. Name the psychological impairment of troops that used to be called shell shock or battle fatigue. 11. What was the name given President Eisenhower's theory claiming if Vietnam fell, other countries would soon follow? 12. What was the site of the peace talks between the U.S. and North Vietnam that produced the treaty leading to U.S. withdrawal from the war in 1973? 13. By what measure did the U.S. Military Advisory Command measure progress in its war plan? 14. What is the name given to the U.S. bombing campaign that significantly widened the war in 1965? 15. What 1954 international agreement brought an end to the French Indochina War and called for general elections to reunify North and South Vietnam in 1956?