if something is unethical then it is morally wrong

a veteran is a person who has served in the armed forces

a protest is a statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to something

a form of protest in which demonstrators occupy a place, refusing to leave until their demands are met

an extended meeting usually held on a college campus for lectures, debates and discussions to raise awareness of or express a position on a social or political issue.

Opposition to the Vietnam War in the US

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

Containment and the Domino Theory

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

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

Discriminatory behaviour or images, whether on the grounds of race, gender, disability, religion or belief or sexual orientation, or otherwise.

Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour

Subjects which particular individuals may be sensitive to, eg, adoption, migration, bereavement or death, divorce, poverty, deprivation.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

Depiction of war, threats of war, death or the aftermath of war.

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

How many US soldiers lost their lives in Vietnam?

What were two other issues that people in America were protesting about alongside the Vietnam War?

Roughly how much was the US spending on the Vietnam War per year?

a person who has served in the armed forces

a statement or action expressing disapproval of something

Match the keyword to the correct definition.

Complete the sentence: Agent {{}} was a chemical used to destroy jungle terrain.

Which high profile boxer was convicted of draft-dodging?

How long after he became president did it take Nixon to open peace negotiations with North and South Vietnam?

Complete the sentence: the Ho Chi {{}} Trail enabled North Vietnam to move troops and equipment into South Vietnam.

Roughly how many miles did the jungle paths that linked North Vietnam with South Vietnam stretch for?

When did the US and South Vietnam invade Cambodia?

Nixon ordered that the US troops should limit their invasion of Cambodia to within a limit of how many miles? 

By the end of the Easter Offensive in 1972, what percentage of South Vietnamese land did North Vietnam control?

This lesson was made for home learning during the pandemic.

Opposition to the Vietnam War in the US

Lesson outcome

Content guidance

This lesson was made for home learning during the pandemic.