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Vietnam War Thematic Unit
24,000 words, approx. 80 pages
 A complete lesson plan by Teacher Created Resources. For Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8. This lesson plan is sold separately and is not included with any subscription or study pack.


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Fiction and Memoirs, Vietnam Summary
1,249 words, approx. 4 pages The Vietnam War spawned a large number of informative and artistically successful memoirs and novels. These personal accounts and works of fiction helped readers to understand the war from a variety of perspectives and often in considerable depth. In...
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Vietnam: Follow-Up Study Summary
948 words, approx. 3 pages In the summer of 1971, the U.S. military forces in Vietnam were being rapidly reduced. To deplete the forces there quickly, many men were being sent home before the usual tour of twelve months was complete. A urine-screening program was established in...
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Who Served in Vietnam? Summary
621 words, approx. 2 pages Approximately 2.5 million Americans served in the Vietnam War, but this figure tells only part of a complex and controversial story. At issue in the controversy is whether men were unfairly sent to Vietnam on the basis of class and race. During and...
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Vietnam War : Topics in Politics
578 words, approx. 2 pages The Vietnam War was a struggle between North and South Vietnam in which the USA was directly involved in the defence of the South, and which had severe repercussions both on the politics of South-East Asia and on US domestic politics. Civil war in...
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Vietnam War Information
19,185 words, approx. 64 pages
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 First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
The Vietnam Wars.
08/01/2001: 2,153 words, approx. 7 pages Like Israelis and Palestinians eyeing each other suspiciously from adjacent hilltops in the West Bank, Americans who were on opposing sides of the Vietnam War may share the same space, but there should be no confusing cohabitation with reconciliation. Even in the best...
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 The Washington Post
The War In Vietnam
11/06/1988: 640 words, approx. 2 pages WILLIAM PROCHNAU'S WELL-WRITTEN piece on Neil Sheehan {"The Last Prisoner of Vietnam," October 9} painted a vivid picture of a dedicated author who put his heart and soul into reporting something (Vietnam) that his heart and soul had come to disdain. It also shows...
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Bill would help Vietnam War allies
12/17/2007: 537 words, approx. 2 pages The massive budget bill before Congress contains legislation that would make it easier for Vietnam War allies such as the Hmong to seek asylum in the U.S., by changing a law that bars people who take up arms from asylum or green cards.Under provisions of...
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Famed Vietnam War scribe Kate Webb dies
5/15/2007: 791 words, approx. 3 pages Kate Webb, a pioneering journalist whose powerful reputation was forged on the front lines of the Vietnam War and who roamed Asia for nearly 35 years covering coups and strife from India to the Philippines, died Sunday. She was 64.Webb, who once made the news...




Literary Criticism
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The Vietnam War in Literature and Film
6,542 words, approx. 22 pages
 [Hölbling is the author of The Discourse of War in Recent American Novels (1987). In the following essay, he discusses the different types of literary responses the Vietnam war has engendered and relates them to American cultural myths and previous war literature.]
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The Vietnam War in Literature and Film
5,362 words, approx. 18 pages
 [In the following excerpt, Fenn focuses on David Rabe's The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel (1968) and Streamers (1976) as he remarks on themes and structures common to Vietnam War dramas.]
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The Vietnam War in Literature and Film
5,111 words, approx. 17 pages
 [An American educator and critic, Klinkowitz has written extensively on contemporary American fiction and edited Writing Under Fire: Stories of the Vietnam War (1978). In the essay below, he surveys novels published during American involvement in the Vietnam War and focuses his analysis on innovative approaches to plot and structure.]
Featured Essays
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U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War
2,862 words, approx. 10 pages
 Provides a history of the Vietnam War. Analyzes U.S. involvment in the war. Argues the Americans should not have been involved.
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