Grade Range: 4-12Resource Type(s): Reference MaterialsDate Posted: 10/14/2008
From 1956-1975, Americans fought a protracted and divisive war against Communist expansion in Southeast Asia. Students will focus on the war in Vietnam and its effects on public opinion back home, look an in-depth at the realities faced by American prisoners of war, and the legacies of the war, including the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in this section of The Price of Freedom: Americans at War, an online exhibition. A non-flash version of this site is available: The Vietnam War.
Multimedia instruction, Museum education, Thematic approach
From 1961 to 1973, the North Vietnamese and Vietcong held hundreds of Americans captive. In North...
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