{"id":3041,"date":"2014-06-01T22:03:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T19:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2014-04-21T22:04:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T19:04:41","slug":"the-vietnam-war-sourcework-questions-why-did-the-us-get-involved-in-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/the-vietnam-war-sourcework-questions-why-did-the-us-get-involved-in-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vietnam War &#8211; Sourcework Questions: Why did the US get involved in Vietnam?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/jfk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3035\" src=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/jfk.jpg\" alt=\"jfk\" width=\"373\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/jfk.jpg 373w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/jfk-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 373px) 100vw, 373px\" \/><\/a><a style=\"color: #3b6cc3;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/igcse\/cuba_vietnam\/2_VIETNAM\/1_Why_USA_involved-ENTRANCE-DONE\/z_swk.doc\">Sourcework Questions: Why did the US get involved in Vietnam?<\/a><\/strong><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Several sourcework questions, culminating in:<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Here are three reasons why the US may have got involved in Vietnam: which do you agree with most, and why?<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">i. Because they wanted to protect the world from communist dictatorship\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ii. Because they were paranoid about the communist threat<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">iii. Because they were aggressively trying to dominate the civilised world<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourcework Questions: Why did the US get involved in Vietnam?Several sourcework questions, culminating in:Here are three reasons why the US may have got involved in Vietnam: which do you agree with most, and why?i. Because they wanted to protect the world from communist dictatorship\u00a0ii. Because they were paranoid about the communist threatiii. Because they were&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/the-vietnam-war-sourcework-questions-why-did-the-us-get-involved-in-vietnam\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[14,6,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-N3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3042,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions\/3042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}