Causes And Effects Of The Vietnam War: A Document-Based Analysis

Week 13: DBQ(T1)

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Step 1: Pick 2 documents & fill out the chart/table below them.

Document 1. . . First of all, you have the specific value of a locality in its production of the materials that the world needs. Then you have the possibility that many human beings pass under a dictatorship that is inimical [opposed] to the free world. Finally, you have broader considerations that might follow what you would call the “falling domino” principle. You have a row of dominos set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly. So you could have a beginning of disintegration that would have the most profound influences. . . . when we come to the possible sequence of events, the loss of Indochina, of Burma, of Thailand, of the Peninsula, and Indonesia following . . . you are talking about millions and millions of people.— Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954

	Questions:	Response:	Textual Support from Document 1:
Document 1:	1. What is the “falling domino” principle? 2. What countries would be affected by this principle?	1. 2.

Document 2Why must this nation hazard its ease, and its interest, and its power for the sake of a people so far away? . . . We are there because we have a promise to keep. Since 1954, every American president has offered support to the people of South Vietnam. We have helped to build, and we have helped to defend . . . we have made a national pledge to help South Vietnam defend its independence. . . . we are also there to strengthen world order. Around the globe, from Berlin to Thailand, are people whose well being rests, in part, on the belief that they can count on us if they are attacked. To leave Vietnam to its fate would shake the confidence of all these people in the value of an American commitment and in the value of America’s word.— Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

	Questions:	Response:	Textual Support from Document 2:
Document 2:	1. List two reasons that President Johnson gives for continuing the war in Vietnam. 2. To what extent is President Johnson willing to commit the United States’ military to involvement in Vietnam?	1. 2.

Document 3. . . I suppose it is not surprising that I have . . . major reasons for bringing Vietnam into the field of my moral vision. There is at the outset a very obvious and almost facile connection between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I and others have been waging in America. . . . We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in South Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem. . . .— Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967

	Questions:	Response:	Textual Support from Document 3:
Document 3:	1. Why is Dr. King against the Vietnam conflict?	1.

Document 4I went to Vietnam with this in mind: here is a country, South Vietnam, that is a freedom-loving people, that want their independence, their right to self-determination, and they are being subjected to a massive Communist invasion from the North.Vietnam pointed something out to me, . . . that I was negligent in my responsibility as a citizen. . . . I say that there is going to be a revolution in this country: . . . a greater awareness of your function as a human being, and of your responsibility, as a citizen of this country, to be held accountable for, and to try to direct, what the United States is doing in your name. . . . I want to see people recognize that a Laotian, a Cambodian, a North Vietnamese, a Viet Cong has got just as much right to live—and live any way he chooses to—as any American.— Bob Mueller, Vietnam Veteran, 1971

	Questions:	Response:	Textual Support from Document 4:
Document 4:	1. What was Bob Mueller’s opinion of the war in Vietnam when he first went over there to fight? 2. What right does he want people to recognize?	1. 2.

Document 5

	Questions:	Response:	Image Support from Document 5:
Document 5:	1. Where did many anti-war protests occur? 2. What was the effect of anti-war protests on the Vietnam conflict?	1. 2.

Step 2: Based on the 2 documents you analyzed pick one of the following prompts that relates to your document and respond in an academic paragraph with support from the document and your module reading.

Prompt Choices:Explain two reasons that the United States entered and continued the conflict in Vietnam.Explain two reasons for opposition to the conflict in Vietnam.

Sentence Stems:Two reasons the United States entered and continued the conflict in Vietnam were (Reason 1) and (Reason 2). If you picked document 1 or 2 you would select this prompt. Use those documents to support why the United States entered and continued the conflict in Vietnam.
Two reasons for opposition to the conflict in Vietnam were (Reason 1) and (Reason 2). If you picked documents 3-5 you would select this prompt. Use those documents to support why the United States entered and continued the conflict in Vietnam.
To be at ADV, you MUST have textual/image support from the documents. You must state as seen or written in the document…The documents must support your thesis statement.

Your response (should be 5-7 sentences in length):