patriotism is a great love for one’s own country

a hard hat is a rigid, protective helmet, as worn by factory and construction workers

a blue-collar worker is someone who works in manual labour, such as manufacturing, agriculture, construction or mining

Support for 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

Opposition to 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

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

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

Depiction or discussion of violence or fighting, including threats of violence or the aftermath of violence.

What term did Nixon use to refer to the people who supported him and the war effort?

What is meant by the term 'blue-collar worker'?

Every American was able to recite the Constitution.

Every home owned a copy of the Constitution.

They pledged allegiance to their flag every morning in school.

They saluted their flag whenever they saw it flying.

They sang the national anthem before every sporting event.

Pick two ways that Americans displayed their patriotism.

Complete the sentence: four students were killed and nine more injured by national guardsmen at {{ }} State University, Ohio, on 4th May 1970.

What was the nickname given to construction workers who supported Nixon?

made a speech publicly supporting the riot

How did Nixon respond to the Hard Hat Riot?

Roughly how much did the US spend on the Vietnam War in total?

the assassination of a high-ranking US general

Complete the sentence: the Students for a {{ }} Society was an anti-war group that had roughly 30 000 members across 300 colleges.

demonstrators occupy a place by refusing to move

an extended meeting usually held on a college campus

a group of people walking from an assembly point to a specific place

Match the form of protest to the definition.

What was the term used for someone who refused the draft?

initial small-scale protests against US involvement in Vietnam

chemical weapons such as Agent Orange and napalm authorised to be used

500 000 people attend the Vietnam War Moratorium march in Washington D.C.

Place these events in chronological order.

Support for the Vietnam War in the US

Lesson outcome

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