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Vietnam: Peace With Honor
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Vietnam: Peace With Honor |
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"It is better that they do a thing imperfectly than for you to do it perfectly:
| for it is their country, their war, and your time is limited. Attributed to T. E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), 1919 "But it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could."
| Commentator Walter Cronkite CBS Evening News, February 27, 1968 "Let us all understand that the question before us is not whether some Americans are for peace and some Americans are against peace. The question at issue is not whether Johnson's war becomes Nixon's war. The great question is: How can we win America's peace?" President Richard M. Nixon Speech on "Vietnamization", November 3, 1969 "Linebacker sought to destroy the ability and the will of North Vietnam to make war." Norman Polmar, Naval Analyst "Weapons At War: Air War in Vietnam" (video, 19:12) Greystone Communications,Inc., 1998 |
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Lesson Objectives
• Understand the goals, provisions and consequences of President Nixon's Vietnamization policy. • Describe the efforts of President Nixon to change global strategic alignments and the implications of his initiatives. • Describe and analyze changes in the military situation in Vietnam from 1969 to 1973. • Describe and assess the impact of US political developments from 1969 through 1975. |
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Study Guides
• What was "Vietnamization? What was it's intended outcome? What was its impact on the situation in Vietnam? On the U.S. home front? • What international political initiatives did President Nixon make in an effort to change the dynamics of the Cold War? • How did President Nixon change the military conduct of the war? What was Nixon's strategy in 1972 for bring the war to a close? • How did the the resignation of President Nixon impact the outcome of the Vietnam War? • What were the provisions of the Paris Accords (January 1973)? |
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Assignment
• Download the following open resource quiz: Download Quiz • The quiz should be used as a guide as you view the following videos. • You may use any resource to answer the questions EXCEPT your classmates. All your work on this quiz must be your own. • Your completed quiz must be submitted via e-mail to your instructor NLT 6:00 AM EST on Tuesday, Dec. 3. • View the following video with the quiz questions and the timelines linked below each video as guides. • Cold War: Vietnam 1954-1968 (all) • Seeds of Conflict: 1945-1960 (timeline) • America Commits: 1961-64 (timeline) • Cold War: Detent 1969-1975 (all) • The Bitter End: 1969-1975 (timeline) Supporting Readings: "Nixon Doctrine" Wikipedia "Vietnamization" Wikipedia 1972 Election and Paris Peace Accords (1973) Wikipedia "Linebacker II" Walter J. Boyne Air Force Magazine, November 1997 Supplemental Resources: "Vietnamization" President Richard M. Nixon Speech to the Nation, September 3, 1969 "The Vietnam War and Its Impact: Nixon's Peace With Honor" Encyclopedia of the New American Nation "The Pentagon Papers" John T. Correll Air Force Magazine, February 2007 "Cambodian Campaign" (Apr-Jul 1970) Wikipedia "Vietnamization" (Chapter 9) "The Easter Offensive" (Chapter 10) America in Vietnam Lt. Col. (Dr.) John F. Guilmartin, USAF (Ret) Military Press, 1991 The Pentagon Papers (Gravel edition) Senator Mike Gravel, editor Boston: Beacon Pess, 1972 • NOTE: This site provides organized links to the Mount Holyoak College International Relations Program "The Strategic Bombing Debate: Second World War & Vietnam" Melden E. Smith American Contemporary History, Vol. 12, No. 1, Jan 1977, pp 175-199 Retrospective: Lessons From Vietnam: "Clear & Hold" Was Working Lewis Sorley Wall Street Journal, October 11, 2009 |
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