President Lyndon Johnson and Escalating War in Vietnam: Using Primary and Secondary Sources to Compose a Historical Argument
Summary
After you have completed any required reading, materials review, and quiz for Chapter 29, you are ready to delve into the Chapter 29 written assignment. Your assignment will have you use PBS Learning: The American Experience video content and primary source document excerpts from SAS Curriculum Pathways. You will critically evaluate primary and secondary sources about President Lyndon Johnson’s escalation of the war in Vietnam. Once you review the primary (document) and video (secondary) resources, you will answer the question: Should President Johnson have increased the United States’ troop commitment to South Vietnam in 1965?
Steps

1. Watch the PBS Learning: The American Experience video on Vietnam War escalation at https://unctv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/pres10.socst.ush.now.escalate/escalation-of-the-vietnam-war-by-lbj/ (5:06). This video includes valuable primary source material for your consideration like archival photos, newsreel footage, and interviews.
2. Read critically and take notes on the five primary source documents provided in the SAS Curriculum Pathways PDF packet for this unit’s writing assignment.
3. The textbook reading and lecture materials, the sources outlined in steps 1 and 2 above, and any additional and optional research you wish to do combine to help you answer the guiding question: Should President Johnson have increased the United States’ troop commitment to South Vietnam in 1965?
4. Compose a minimum two-page Word document response (12 point, Times New Roman font, double-spaced) that answers the question: Should President Johnson have increased the United States’ troop commitment to South Vietnam in 1965? In your two-page paper, make sure you support your point by using quotations and support from the actual text of the documents.

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