Impact of Vietnam War on USA -USA Conflict Home & Abroad - GCSE Edexcel History - Lesson 29

**This lesson examines the impact of the Vietnam War on America. It divides the consequences and impact of the war into the following categories: social, economic, military and political. **

The lesson includes the following:

• Slide 1: Title slide
• Slide 2-3: Previous Learning Recap tasks about the Paris Peace Agreement with answers provided.
• Slide 4: Source Inference starter task with promp questions about the source
• Slide 5: Task One: A US soldier’s war experience source analysis with questions - suitable to print out for students
• Slide 6: An overview of the impact of the Vietnam War introducing the main categories
• Slide 7: Instructions for the main learning task
• Slide 8: Printable sheet - students read each statement and decide which category it best fits into.
• Slide 9: Challenge questions
• Slide 10-11: Exam Practice ‘How useful’ question using Source B from a previous slide
• Slide 12: Learning Review - What was the emotional impact of the Vietnam War
• Slide 13-14: Lesson fact sheets based on the Edexcel 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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