Vietnam War Opposition

You are an opponent of American involvement in Vietnam. Use the evidence in this chapter to begin formulating ideas to make a poster or a leaflet putting forward your views. You will work on this in class on Friday. You can include stories and images from pages 353-61. However, you must also include an explanation that will convince the supporters of containment that the policy is not working in Vietnam. OPTIONAL: Instead of opposing the war, you can support it. Feel free to make a COUNTER-ARGUMENT that the war is necessary to contain Communism.

1. Note all of the reasons why you feel the war in Vietnam is wrong.
I believe the Vietnam war is bad because we are trying to contain their government and communism. The united states is scared because there is communism in vietnam and they want to try and contain it by using war. The war is a media war and most of all americans can see what is happening in the war. The americans can see people burning themselves, people being shot, children being shot and things being blown up. The massacre in vietnam was also very wrong and it showed that the Vietname war was even more wrong to begin with. Many innocent people were murdered by careless and inexperiences young soldiers.

2. Note what you re trying to achieve with this poster. (e.g. to convince people to write to their Congressmen to get the troops out.)
With this poster i am trying to convince congress and the population of the US to get the troops out of vietnam.

3. List possible images for your poster. Think about: background (e.g. destroyed villages); the central image (e.g. picture of a young soldier); whether you will need words to explain your image.
Pictures of children, camps, geruilla warfar people, clothing, fire, guns, tunnels, us troops, vietnam troops, Ho chi minh, villages, mY lai massacre.

4. List some possible slogans for your poster.
-The young and the "innocent"
-Children in Vietnam
-Killings
-Childish