Directions: Use these questions to guide your exploration of C-SPAN's Vietnam War-related video.
1. Describe American foreign policy in Vietnam. What were the goals? What means were employed to achieve those goals? What were the results?2. What conditions, either domestic or international, impacted American foreign policy?
3. How did the various Presidential Administrations and Congress interact while developing and implementing policy?
4. Who fought in the war? What impact did the draft have?
5. How did the Vietnamese experience the war? How did Americans? What are the political and cultural legacies of the war on each country?
6. What Constitutional issues were raised during the war?
7. What role did the media play? How did the media impact Americans' perceptions of the war? What role did public opinion play?
8. What do veterans of the Vietnam War say about their experiences? What do POW accounts teach us about history/the war? What impact do Vietnam veterans have today?
9. To what degree did our experience in Vietnam influence our experience of the war in Iraq?
10. What can be gained from a study of the Vietnam War? Why does the war still resonate with Americans today?