Vietnamisation was the US policy of withdrawing troops and transferring responsibility for the war to the government of South Vietnam

honour is knowing and doing what is morally right

withdrawal means leaving a place or situation

The effect of Vietnamisation on US policy in Vietnam

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 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

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

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

to increase capitalist influence in Vietnam

What was Nixon's main reason for implementing Vietnamisation?

President Johnson's announcement that he would not run for reelection

Put the following in chronological order.

US policy of transferring responsibility to the war to South Vietnam

What was the acronym used for the South Vietnamese army?

Finish the sentence: instances of {{ }}, which was the deliberate killing of your commanding officer, increased among US troops as the war progressed.

How large was the ARVN compared to other militaries because of Vietnamisation?

What ideologies was the Cold War fought between?

a foreign policy strategy during the Cold War

political ideology wherein everybody is equal

economic system based on private ownership

President Eisenhower supports Diem in South Vietnam

America's involvement in Vietnam escalates

Large-scale protests against the war in Vietnam

Put the following events related to Vietnam in chronological order.

What was the primary reason for President Eisenhower supporting Diem in South Vietnam?

Complete the sentence: large-scale {{ }} in America became more frequent as the Vietnam War continued.

Complete the sentence: The {{ }} Offensive in 1968 had a dramatic impact on the American public's perception of the war.

Starter Quiz

What ideologies was the Cold War fought between?