Containment was a foreign policy strategy used by the US during the Cold War to try to prevent the spread of communism

the Domino Theory was the idea that if one country fell to communism more would follow

Marshall Aid (or the Marshall Plan) was the American strategy of giving money to European countries to help them recover after World War Two

Containment and the Domino Theory

History

Segregation and discrimination in the USA

Civil rights organisations in the 20th century

Progress in education, 1954-60

The Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-6)

Martin Luther King Jr and the early civil rights movement

Early opposition to the civil rights movement

The changing position of black Americans by 1960

Greensboro and the sit-in movement

Freedom rides: protests and progress for civil rights (1961)

The James Meredith case (1962)

The peace marches (1963) and Freedom Summer (1964)

The Civil Rights Act (1964) and Voting Rights Act (1965)

Reasons why the civil rights movement was more successful from 1960 to 1965

The role of Malcolm X in the civil rights movement

The emergence of the Black Power movement

The Black Panther Party

The riots of 1965-67 and the Kerner Report (1968)

King's campaign in the North

How successful was the civil rights movement by 1975?

French Indochina

Vietcong resistance

Gulf of Tonkin incident

The Tet Offensive

US involvement in Vietnam

The effect of Vietnamisation on US policy in Vietnam

The expansion of the war into Cambodia, Laos and North Vietnam, 1969-1972

Opposition to the Vietnam War in the US

Support for the Vietnam War in the US

Changing US policy in Vietnam, 1969-1972

Peace negotiations to end the Vietnam War, 1968-1972

The Paris Peace agreement, 1973

US weaknesses in the Vietnam War

North Vietnamese strengths in the Vietnam War

Impact of the Vietnam War

In this unit, pupils study a modern society and the issues that affected it in great depth over a shorter period. They learn about the key events, developments, people and stories that shaped this modern society over a period of around twenty to thirty years.

Modern depth studies

Complete the sentence: The __________ Scare referred to a wave of anti-communist feeling in the US.

Which area of Europe saw communist parties come to power in multiple countries?

What plan aimed to rebuild Europe in order to prevent the spread of communism?

Which Asian country became communist in 1949?

Communist North Korea invades capitalist South Korea

Vietnam is split into North Vietnam and South Vietnam

What was the term given to President Eisenhower's fear of communist governments coming to power in Southeast Asia?

a Chinese communist group that aimed to take control of all of Southeast Asia

the name given to the Japanese when they controlled French Indochina during WW1

a communist nationalist group that fought for Vietnamese independence

a group that worked with the French to help govern French Indochina

Complete the sentence: the Viet Minh specialised in __________ warfare.

How did the people of France refer to the conflict in Vietnam against the Viet Minh?

Which countries supported the Viet Minh during their conflict with France?

at the 1st parallel; most of the territory went to North Vietnam

at the 21st parallel; land was lost to Cambodia and Laos

at the 38th parallel; most of the territory went to South Vietnam

How was Vietnam divided at the Geneva Conference in 1954?

When were elections supposed to take place to unify Vietnam?

Containment and the Domino Theory

Lesson outcome