Teaching Activities

1. Consider the policies of John F. Kennedy, 1961 to 1963, and Lyndon Johnson, 1963 to 1968, and assess the similarities and differences between them in terms of aims, processes and results.
2. Role-play exercise. Divide the class into two groups, each playing the part of students at university in the USA in 1967. Each group will prepare and argue its case as to why American troops should be withdrawn from Vietnam; or why it is imperative that the US should remain there until the war is won. (Make sure that the evidence assembled is appropriate to 1967, not later.)