GCSE History Edexcel: Conflict Home & Abroad - Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (Lesson 20)

This lesson examines how President Johnson used the events of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident (1964) to increase America’s involvement in Vietnam after 1965.

The lesson includes the following:
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Lesson Key Questions
Slide 3-5:Previous Lesson Gap Fill - with answers revealed and a student printout version
Slide 6: Source Inference Starter Task about the increasing threat of the Vietcong by 1964
Slide 7: Discussion activity about the various reasons why the Vietcong were an increasing threat by 1964.
Slide 8: Overview and discussion task about Johnson’s aims in Vietnam in 1964
Slide 9-10: Background information about the Gulf of Tonkin Incident and the passing of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
Slide 11: Instructions and challenge question for the timeline task
Slide 12: A printable version of the timeine for students to complete using their fact sheet
Slide 13: The significance of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Slide 14: Learning Review Quiz
Slide 15-16: Lesson fact sheets based on the Edexcel specification

I have included two fact sheets (one slightly differentiated) with the information needed for this part of the course which can be found on the final two slides. Therefore, no other resources are needed for the teaching of this lesson.

Please note that all images (clipart/photographs/vectors) used in this presentation, to be best of my knowledge, are copyright free and in the public domain unless otherwise attributed in the links. A number of clipart images have also been purchased for commercial use from ‘Artsy Bee Kids’. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue. Thank you.