You are an opponent of American involvement in Vietnam. Use the evidence in this chapter to begin formulating ideas to make a poster or a leaflet putting forward your views. You will work on this in class on Friday. You can include stories and images from pages 353-61. However, you must also include an explanation that will convince the supporters of containment that the policy is not working in Vietnam. OPTIONAL: Instead of opposing the war, you can support it. Feel free to make a COUNTER-ARGUMENT that the war is necessary to contain Communism.
1. Note all of the reasons why you feel the war in Vietnam is wrong.
-Many many innocent civilians were killed (by chemical weapons, search and destroy tactics)
-destroying villages where innocent civilians were
-The My Lai Massacre
-The Ancient Hue was destroyed
-Napalm bombs killing children (pictures shown of children running from the bombs)
-US army seemed weak
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.)
To convince people that this war is disastrous, and we need to get the Congressmen to get our troops out before we kill anymore innocent civilians and take their homes away by destroying their villages.
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.
-destroyed villages
-solider watching burning down village
-photographs of the My Lai Massacre
-Vietnamese children running from the US Napalm bombs
-people in the South Vietnamese sorting through the city of Hue looking through the wreckage of their homes
4. List some possible slogans for your poster.
-Is this what we sent our soldiers there for?
-Do we want the innocent Vietnamese blood shed on our country?
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