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Vietnam War - ALCUSH: Getting Started

Ms. Amelianovich

So many books, so little time...

Please check out the class book cart for this assignment. There are many great books on Vietnam, including the following:

Learning Targets

Learning Targets:
I CAN: evaluate sources for their reliability.
I CAN: identify and apply correct citations per MLA guidelines.
I CAN: use notecards to organize my research.

Research Categories

Conduct your research based on the following topics. Your chosen articles can be about a specific person, platoon, battle, situation, decision - there’s a lot of freedom here. Because you only need to find four articles, you will not have an article for each category – but you will have articles on four different topics.

● Battle of Khe Sanh
● My Lai Massacre
● Self-immolation (specifically of Buddhist monks in Saigon)
● General Westmoreland (in relation to Vietnam)
● Lyndon B. Johnson (in relation to Vietnam)
● Mekong Delta (in relation to the war in Vietnam)
● Tet Offensive