Image above: An iconic image from the Vietnam War - the important
role of helicopters for troop movements, supplies and medical evacuations
Your
submissions on-line
I now have most
of your entries and they will soon be posted on the South
Australian Government website - well done for producing such excellent
pieces of research and documentation!!! Veterans SA have asked me to "encourage
the students to share the site on their social media etc". Feel free to
promote the prize and the stories you researched in any way you see as
appropriate.
Veterans SA website at http://anzaccentenary.sa.gov.au/competitions/the-premiers-anzac-spirit-school-prize/
Chronological
sequencing of the Vietnam War
In this posting
I have selected some sites that provide timelines for the Vietnam War. I plan to
forward via this blog small bits of information on a regular basis (about once
a week) for you to look at prior to the trip. If you do the readings/watching I
direct you to in the blog over the next two months you will have a really good
understanding of what you are visiting when we are in Vietnam. I know you have
plenty of schoolwork to do but if we do a little bit at a time in preparation
for the tour, you will certainly be well briefed on the Vietnam War and
associated aspects for our visit (some postings will be about Vietnam, the
place). There is no test or assessment of all this reading/watching, just a
chance for you to get the most out of the tour - up to you! I know that many of
you are doing your own reading in preparation - keep that going but just keep
an eye out for what I post to see if it provides information that you have not
covered.
Other than keeping a journal on the trip, I am not planning to provide any worksheets or a workbook for you - this blog preparation is really that! Plus, I don't want your heads buried in booklets or filling in sheets when we are traveling - I want you look around and take it all in, using the knowledge and understandings about Vietnam and the Vietnam War you gain prior to the trip.
The
chronological sequencing of events is a fundamental skill in history and this
blog posting provides several timelines of events (for the American involvement
and the Australian involvement in the Vietnam War). Such sequencing gives you
an orientation of what happened over time - it is so important to get your
historical bearings on happenings with any historical event - to know what
happened in order. Probably not the most exciting historical task but very
important when considering cause and effect.
American involvement timelines
Australian involvement timelines
