Vietnam War - Vietcong Tactics Guerrilla Warfare - US Home & Abroad - GCSE Edexcel - Lesson 21

This lesson examines the guerrilla warfare tactics used by the Vietcong and asks students to explain why these tactics were so effective against the USA and ARVN forces in Vietnam. Source based exam questions are given throughout.

The lesson includes the following:

• Slide 1: Title slide
• Slide 2: Lesson Key Questions
• Slide 3:Source inference recap of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
• Slide 4: Sources based starter task - What can students infer from 2 sources about the use of guerrilla warfare tactics by the Vietcong?
• Slide 5: Discussion question about the definition of ‘Guerrilla Warfare’.
• Slide 6: Background information about why guerrilla warfare tactics were so effective against the USA
• Slide 7-8: Table fill activity for students to describe the various tactics and then explain why they were so effective. Print out included
• Slide 9: Follow-up challenge questions
• Slide 10-12: Practice Exam Question - ‘How useful’ with model answer and suggested structure sheet included.
• Slide 13: Charades based Learning Review 1
• Slide 14-15: Learning Review 2 - True or False?
• Slides 16-17: 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.

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