Vietnam War Opposition

1. Note all of the reasons why you feel the war in Vietnam is wrong.

First of all, millions of people are being murdered and killed by diseases caused from Napalm and Agent Orange. Men are murdering an unlawful amount of innocent civilians and American citizens are being lied to, being told that only Vietcong are being killed. We are in this war to support containment, but this war is doing the opposite, because we are only increasing our chances of the domino theory becoming a reality.

2. Note what you re trying to achieve with this poster. (e.g. to convince people to write to their Congressmen to get the troops out.)

I am trying to prove that this war is in NO way good for our country, and only is increasing the chances of an extreme increase in Communism in and around Vietnam. All we are accomplishing is killing a limited amount of Vietcong fighters, and we are just killing our own soldiers.

3. List possible images for your poster. Think about: background (e.g. destroyed villages); the central image (e.g. picture of a young soldier); whether you will need words to explain your image.

Pictures of Vietnamese children affected by chemical weapons; Destroyed Villages; Dead Bodies (of civilians in particular);;;;;; Depending on the pictures, I may want to put a paragraph under some, or maybe just a small caption, describing what is going on in the picture to help us be convinced the war is tragic.

4. List some possible slogans for your poster.

"All bite and no bark"
"Mass murder accomplishes nothing"

Vietnam War Turning Points

1. Why was the Tet Offensive a turning point? Explain your answer.

The Tet Offensive proved to be a turning point in the war because it raised questions about the war in the US, involving troops and money and how the Offensive took the US by surprise, as well as destruction and the murder of many civilians in towns.

2. Are Sources 51 and 52 making the same point about the My Lai Massacre?

Sources 51 and 52, in my opinion, are most certainly not making the same point about the My Lai Massacre, because Source 51 is talking about how the murder of so many civilians was a disaster and a "Nazi thing to do", while in Source 52, Calley is arguing that it was basically part of their overall objective to destroy Communism.

3. Why do you think it took 12 months for anyone to do anything about the massacre?

I think that it took 12 months for anyone to do anything about the massacre because when the Massacre has first taken place, it was recorded as there only being 20 non-combatant deaths and the rest were Viet Cong, but after being looked into and published in magazines, it was proven that much more civilians were killed than Viet Cong.

4. Why was the massacre so shocking to the American public?

The revelations about My Lai so deeply shocked the American public because of all of the innocent murders and it expressed the idea that the war had gone wrong.