Vietnam War Opposition - USA Conflict Home & Abroad - GCSE Edexcel History - Lesson 26

This lesson helps students explain the various reasons why there was growing opposition to the Vietnam war in the years 1969-75. There are a number of practice exam questions included in the lesson.

The lesson includes:

• Slide 1: Title slide
• Slide 2: President Nixon & Vietnamisation Recap activities
• Slide 3: Starter Task - Reasons for opposition to war discussion
• Slide 4: Reasons for opposition to the Vietnam War
• Slide 5-7: Source photographs showing showing Vietnam War demonstrations
• Slide 8-9: Fact Finder Task and instructions, including student print out.
• Slide 10: A diagram to help students make notes about the various reasons for opposition
• Slide 11: Challenge Task - Interpretation Difference (hard)
• Slide 12: Follow Up Challenge Tasks
• Slide 13-14: Practice Inference question and student print out
• Slide 15-16: Practice ‘Explain why’ question and helpful structure sheet
• Slide 17-18: Learning Review ‘Who am I?’ quiz with answers
• Slide 19-22: Lesson fact sheets based on the GCSE 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.

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