WEDNESDAY

US HISTORY
EQ:
What factors led to U.S. military intervention in Vietnam?


CW:
Unit 8 Study Guide

notes: Into the Quagmire: 1945-66:
guided note sheet
origins of US involvement in Vietnam--lecture and clips from 1960s DVD
U.S. policy in Vietnam under JFK
JFK orders the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem
Buddhist monk self-immolation in Saigon 
U.S. policy under LBJ--1963-66
1964: Gulf of Tonkin incident
March 1965--first American ground forces arrive in Vietnam
anti-war protests begin

HW:
Read pp. 948--53
the draft and the anti-war movement
hawks vs. doves