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.
Your entry will be posted on the Veterans SA website at https://veteranssa.sa.gov.au/themes/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 three 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 to 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
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