4/14 Proficiency Writing on Vietnam

Students will have a chance to finish the Test if they weren't done and we are also writing for the proficiencies---

Write on two of the following:
1. Identify one antiwar argument made by protesters of the Vietnam War and one prowar argument made by supporters of the war.

2. Why was the Tet offensive considered the turning point of the war?

3. Explain how the Vietnam War was an extension of our post WWII foreign policy of containment.

4. Explain how the age of student activism began and progressed. What issues were they concerned about and what methods were used to get their point across?


If all is completed--begin reading about Nixonian politics p. 826-837 in text