Unit IV - Recent American History – The Vietnam War and the 1970s
READINGS
22.1
22.2
22.3
22.4
22.5
24.1
24.2
Moving Toward Conflict
U.S. Involvement and Escalation
A Nation Divided
1968: A Tumultuous Year
The End of the War and Its Legacy
The Nixon Administration
Watergate: Nixon’s Downfall
Pages 724-728
Pages 729-734
Pages 735-740
Pages 741-746
Pages 747-753
Pages 786-792
Pages 793-797
CRITICAL TERMS
Vietnam
Vietcong
Ho Chi Minh Trail
TET Offensive
Draft
Nixon
Vietnamization
Realpolitik
Détente
Watergate Burglary
Anti-war Movement
Spiro Agnew
George McGovern
Henry Kissinger
SALT I
Stagflation
Silent Majority Speech
GUIDED READING QUESTIONS
22.1 Readings – due 5/21
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2.
How did the U.S. become involved in the Vietnam conflict?
Describe the expansion of U.S. military involvement under President Johnson.
22.2 Readings – due 5/26
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5.
Explain the reasons for the escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
Describe the military tactics of weapons of the Vietcong and the U.S. forces.
Explain the impact of the war on American society.
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8.
Explain the U.S. draft policies that led to the Vietnam War becoming a working class war.
What were the roots of opposition to the war?
Describe the antiwar movement and the growing divisions in the U.S. public opinion about
the war.
22.3 Readings – due 5/27
22.4 Readings – due 5/28
9. Describe the TET offensive and its effects on American public opinion.
10. What decision did Johnson make in the election of 1968?
22.5 Readings – due 5/29
11. Describe Nixon’s policy of Vietnamization.
12. What events concluded the Vietnam War?
24.1 Readings – due 6/1
13. Explain the importance of Nixon’s visits to China and the Soviet Union.
14. Define realpolitik.
15. Explain Nixon’s policy of détente.
24.2 Readings – due 6/2
16. Summarize why the Watergate burglary occurred and why the Nixon admin. covered it up.
17. Describe how the Watergate cover-up unraveled.
18. What effects did the Watergate scandal have on the U.S?