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1. http://www.vietnampix.com/intro2.htm (History of Vietnam)

2. http://www.classbrain.com/artteenst/publish/article_105.shtml (Gulf of Tonkin)

3. http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/vietnamwar/a/VietnamTet.htm (Tet Offensive)

4. http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/guerrilla/index.html (Guerilla Warfare)

5. http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/vietnamwar/a/VietnamViet.htm (Trouble on the Home

front)

6. http://www.cyberlearning-world.com/nhhs/html3/culture.htm (Counter Culture)

7. http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-protests (Anti-War Movement)

8. http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Vietnam_War_Protestors?rec=1674 (Violence of Anti-

War)

9. http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/bob+dylan/blowin+in+the+wind_20021159.html (Blowin’ in the

Wind)

10. http://history1900s.about.com/od/vietnamwar/tp/vietnamwarpictures.htm (Photo Gallery

Vietnam)

11. http://americanhistory.si.edu/lisalaw/1.htm (Photo Gallery America)

Vietnam War Webquest

1. Click [here] to learn about the history of Vietnam.

Briefly describe the background to the Vietnam War. Answer the following questions:

How did Vietnam end up being split into two?

Why did the US get involved?

Who was Ho Chi Minh?

Who were the Vietcong?

2. Click [here] to learn about the Gulf of Tonkin. Answer these questions

What was the Gulf of Tonkin resolution?

Why was it necessary (what had happened in the Gulf of Tonkin)?

3. Click [here] to learn about the Tet offensive.

What was the Tet offensive?

4. Click [here] to learn about Guerilla warfare.

Describe Guerilla warfare.

5. Click [here] to read about "trouble on the home front".

Why was support for the war declining?

6. Click [here] to read about 1960's counter-culture.

What was the counter-culture and how did it relate to Vietnam

7. Click [here] to learn about the antiwar movement

What were the different ways that students protested the war effort?

8. Click [here] to learn about the violence of the antiwar movement

What happened at Kent State? Explain in a paragraph, be specific.

9. Click [here] to read the lyrics to Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind".

What is Bob Dylan trying to say with these lyrics? How do you think he felt about the war?

10. Click [here] to view a photo gallery of pictures from Vietnam.

Choose 5 categories and describe 5 photos from each. (Yes, that is 25 photos!)

11. Click [here] to view a photo gallery of America from 1965-1971.

Click on the numbers, 1-8, at the top to see all 8 pages.

Write a brief summary about her experiences with the following:

The counterculture

Communal living

Woodstock