Crossroads: High School Curriculum
Unit XI: Leader of the Free World: 1945-1975
Documents-Based Activity on the Vietnam Conflict
Lesson 5
Documents-Based Activity on the Vietnam Conflict
DIRECTIONS: Using copies of the worksheets prepared by other groups,
your own group's work, and any additional notes on presentations, etc., prepare
a written evaluation of the following statement:
What made US involvement in Vietnam a tragedy was not the initial intent to
save South Vietnam from Communism, but the persistence in mistaken efforts to
achieve this goal long past the point where irreversible damage to U.S. society
and institutions had occurred.
This is not a persuasive essay, so please do not take only one side to defend
and disregard conflicting evidence.
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