The Vietnam Conflict, 1945–75 (Edexcel iGCSE history, paper 2, A4)

This is a series of lessons that cover the iGCSE Edexcel History paper 2 (A4) the Vietnam Conflict, 1945-75.

Previous exams from 2019 to 2023 have been used throughout the lessons. I have matched them up by topic and included the mark scheme after. The exclusion of 2024 exams means you will be able to use this for any mock exams.

A learning checklist is included. This gives you an overview of the content and when it has been examined.

No textbook is required. All lessons come with ready made reading that is referenced in the lesson ppts.

Series of 24 lessons:
1.01 Origins of the First Indochina War
1.02 The tactics of General Giap
1.03 Search for a diplomatic solution
1.04 French defeat at Dien Bien Phu

2.01 Geneva Conference & Domino Theory
2.02 South and North Vietnam
2.03 Ho’s policies to unite Vietnam, NLF & Ho Chi Minh Trail
2.04 response of the USA
2.05 Fall of Diem and Gulf of Tonkin

3.01 Second Indochina War
3.02 Operation Rolling Thunder
3.03 televised war - Khe Sanh
3.04 televised war – Tet
3.05 Televised war - The Battle of Hue

4.01 Failure of peace talks
4.02 Cambodia and Laos
4.03 Relations with China
4.04 Vietnamisation and withdrawal by 73
4.05 the effects of Ford’s diplomatic response

5.01 Effect of war on civilians in Vietnam
5.02 US response to Guerilla war
5.03 Hearts & minds, My Lai, and Phoenix
5.04 US media coverage
5.05 Fulbright Hearings (1971)