WEDNESDAY

Adv. US History
Focus:
Vietnam War

CW:
notes: Into the Quagmire: 1945-66:
origins of US involvement in Vietnam
US policy in Vietnam under JFK:
video clip: JFK orders the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem (1:37:00---1:40:18)
Buddhist Monk self-immolation
US policy in Vietnam under LBJ:
1:15:00--1:21:48
discussion: What happened in the Gulf of Tonkin?
video clip: 1:32:00---1:39:46
President Johnson escalates US involvement: Part 4 of DVD (15:00---17:54; 30:00--40:00)
anti-war protests begin: (52:55---59:58)
credibility gap: (1:08:00--1:18:00)

HW:
Reading: A System of Suffering
EMAIL FOR READING IF ABSENT
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Honors US History
Focus:
The Struggle for Civil Rights

CW:
notes/video clips:
May 1954: Brown decision
Aug 1955: Emmett Till murdered in the Mississippi Delta
Dec. 2, 1955: Montgomery Bus Boycott begins
Feb. 1, 1960: lunch counter sit-ins begin in Greensboro, NC
May 1961: Freedom Rides begin
April--May 1963: The Fight to Integrate Birmingham, AL
June 11, 1963: JFK speech on civil rights bill; Medgar Evers assassinated
Aug. 28, 1963: March on Washington

HW:
REFLECT ON LEARNING