{"id":3897,"date":"2016-11-17T16:18:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T13:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=3897"},"modified":"2016-11-20T16:19:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T13:19:41","slug":"why-and-with-what-degree-of-justification-did-nixon-refuse-to-immediately-withdraw-from-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/why-and-with-what-degree-of-justification-did-nixon-refuse-to-immediately-withdraw-from-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Why, and with what degree of justification, did Nixon refuse to immediately withdraw from Vietnam?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/igcse\/cuba_vietnam\/2_VIETNAM\/5_Endgame_Conclusions-DONE\/2_Nixon_Speech.docx\">Why, and with what degree of justification, did Nixon refuse to immediately withdraw from Vietnam?<\/a><br \/>\nA primary source analysis activity. Students use the &#8216;Silent Majority&#8217; speech to answer the following questions:<br \/>\n1. What is the current situation in Vietnam, and why did America get involved in the first place?<br \/>\n2. Why is Nixon refusing to immediately withdraw from Vietnam?<br \/>\n3a. What public diplomatic efforts has Nixon made to secure peace? Why have they failed so far?<br \/>\n3b. What private diplomatic efforts has Nixon made to secure peace? Why have they failed so far?<br \/>\n4. What is the &#8220;Nixon Doctrine&#8221;? What are the reasons for, and initial results of, this policy?<br \/>\n5. What is the exact timetable for withdrawal of American forces from Vietnam?<br \/>\n6. Why is Nixon refusing to immediately withdraw from Vietnam? Why should we support him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why, and with what degree of justification, did Nixon refuse to immediately withdraw from Vietnam? A primary source analysis activity. Students use the &#8216;Silent Majority&#8217; speech to answer the following questions: 1. What is the current situation in Vietnam, and why did America get involved in the first place? 2. Why is Nixon refusing to&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/why-and-with-what-degree-of-justification-did-nixon-refuse-to-immediately-withdraw-from-vietnam\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[14,6,5],"tags":[672,674,673,670,567,666,675],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-10R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897"}],"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=3897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3898,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions\/3898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}