Vietnam War Tactics: video worksheets, differentiated.

Please ensure you can access the video before you get this resource. A very detailed and accessible analysis of the different approaches to warfare in Vietnam. Using archive footage and a variety of primary sources (all cited fully), this engaging film covers: US expectations of a firepower-led victory; Operation Rolling Thunder. US ground-war confined to South Vietnam. Search-and-destroy tactics. McNamara’s statistical approach and ‘body-count’. ARVN thought to lack quality. M16 replaces M14 for jungle combat. Huey replaces Shawnee helicopter. Napalm and white phosphorus. B52 bombers. VC adopts guerilla tactics, sniping, mines, and booby-traps. Tunnels. Soviet equipment inc. AK47 and MIG-21. VC tactics against helicopters. ‘Humping the Boonies’. US friendly fire. M16 disliked. US soldiers include very young draftees. Violence against civilians by all sides. S Vietnamese support for the North. Stalemate. US body-counts exaggerated. US bombing ineffective. International support for The North.

Find the film on YouTube by searching the Real Time History Channel for “Search and Destroy: Vietnam War Tactics 1965-1967 (Documentary)”. My link omits a 2-min trailer at the end, the film will stop straight after my sheet’s final question if you use my embedded link.

15 questions for the 21-min film (not inc. the omitted 2-min trailer). Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Questions right up to the end (of my embedded link), no slack time! Excellent subtitles, scripted, not auto-generated. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files.

And while you’re at it, have a look at Vietnam War Bingo here.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12762137