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  1. History Assessments
  2. Sourcing
  3. Cold War
  4. Vietnam War
Topic: U.S. History, World History
Historical Skills: Sourcing, Contextualization, Use of Evidence
Time Period: Cold War, 1900s
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Alternative Versions of Assessment

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  • Post-Civil War South
  • Traders in the West
  • Portrait of an Iroquois Leader
  • Seven Years' War
  • The Virginia Company
  • Kathleen Cleaver Interview
  • Qing Engraving
  • Japan and America
  • Jacob Riis
  • Children Working in Mines
  • Arabian Peninsula
  • Defender of Slavery
  • Hawaiian Annexation
  • Cuban Missile Crisis Interview
  • The Florentine Codex

Vietnam War

Like the Unions in Paterson, New Jersey assessment, this question gauges whether students can source and contextualize a document. Students first examine an excerpt from an interview with Melvin Laird, who served as United States Secretary of Defense from 1969-1973, on the outcome of the Vietnam War. Students then analyze four historical facts and determine which one might lead them to question the reliability of Laird’s account. 

This interview is from the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. (The clip begins at 26:01.)

Laird interview copy
Interview with Melvin Laird

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  • Unions in Paterson, New Jersey

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  • Drawing of "Contrabands" Escaping in Virginia

    Post-Civil War South

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  • Traders in the West

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  • Portrait of Tee Yee Neen Ho Ga Row

    Portrait of an Iroquois Leader

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  • Seven Years' War

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  • The Virginia Company

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  • Kathleen Cleaver Interview

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  • Qing Engraving

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  • Japan and America

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  • Jacob Riis

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  • Children Working in Mines

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  • Arabian Peninsula

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  • Defender of Slavery

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  • Annexation newspaper article. From the Library of Congress

    Hawaiian Annexation

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    Cuban Missile Crisis Interview

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  • Florentine Codex Illustration

    The Florentine Codex

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