10.3: the Vietnam War - Q -

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AGE 10. The Time of Television and Computers

10.3  the Vietnam War

Practise Questions

1. Why did America intervene in Vietnam
after France was defeated?

2. Study source B. Then use the source
to describe the fear the USA had about communism

3a. The US president was afraid that
a reunited Vietnam would
become a communist state.

1. true
2. false

3b. The Viet Cong and American soldiers
fought face-to-face.

1. true
2. false

3c. The poster in source A is made
by the USA to warn against communism.

1. true
2. false

3d. The USA supported South Vietnam
against North Vietnam.

1. true
2. false

3e. The Viet Cong was stationed in
North Vietnam.

1. true
2. false

4. This is a group task. Discuss this with your group members and formulate one joint group answer.

You are the jury in the trial of the army captain who gave the order for the My Lai Massacre.
Can you understand why this happened and why the captain made his decision?
Write down if you would find him guilty or not guilty and why.

5a. How did the media play a part in the hippie protests?

5b. Give two examples of how hippies
protested against their government.

6. At the end of the Vietnam War, U.S. President Nixon was forced to step down, because of his involvement in a secret eavesdrops operation.

Use the Internet to find out what this scandal is called.
Choose the right name.

1. Mount Rushmore scandal
2. Washington monument scandal
3. Watergate scandal
4. White House scandal

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