US History Academic Standards
USH.6.3 Analyze the series of events and long term foreign and domestic consequences of the United States' military involvement in Vietnam including the Domino Theory, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the Tet Offensive, the presidential election of 1968, university student protests led by the counterculture movement, expanded television coverage of the war, the War Powers Resolution Act, and the 26th Amendment.
Oklahoma History Center Education Resources
Traveling Trunks
Oklahomans and the War in Vietnam
E-Exhibit
Oklahomans and the War in Vietnam
The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
John W. Miller, "Vietnam War Protests"
Linda D. Wilson, "Miss America"
Research Center Resources
Robert Lloyd Ford, Black Cat 2-1: the true story of a Vietnam helicopter pilot and his crew. Dallas, TX: Brown Publishing Group, 2015.
Audio/Visual
Photograph of "Returning From a 4-Day Operation, Near C A N Ci Uoe, View Nam, March 1967." L. To R." Front: 1/Maj. Pha'p - Battalion C.O., Back: 2. Joe Putnam, 3. S/Sgt. Cook (Rt. Shoe And Left Hand Only.), c.1967. Joe Putnam Collection https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1476823/
"Student body president Bill Moffitt speaks to youthful protesters on the University of Oklahoma's South Oval Wednesday." https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc319170/
"People's liberation Army, in symbolic clothing and carrying messages." https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc325690/
Photograph 2012.201.B0158.0483 https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc329432/
Photograph 2012.201.B0354.0566 https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc387408/
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "From war to peace, 23 Vietnam orphans like these arrived in OKC Wednesday night." https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc641325/
Online Primary Sources
American Military and War Primary Source Collections, OSU
The Vietnam War: Primary Sources and Teaching Activities, National Archives
Teaching the Vietnam War with Primary Sources, The New York Times
Additional Resources
Battlefield: Vietnam, PBS
Jack G. Joplin, Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame
Vietnam War, National Archives
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