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Research Paper/Speech Topics--Vietnam & the War
The following are some topics that might be considered as possibilities for writing an assigned research paper, project, or speech:
The causes of the Vietnam War
The consequences and long term effects of the war on the United States and on Vietnam
The anti-war movement
The Phoenix Program
U.S. foreign policy during the Vietnam War
The use of Agent Orange and other herbicides
Profile of the U.S. soldier who fought in Vietnam
Afro-American soldiers in Vietnam
Draft evasion and amnesty
Conscientious objectors
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Civilians who served in Vietnam during the war
Journalism and the Vietnam War
Nurses in Vietnam
The domino theory
Weapons used during the Vietnam War
The similarities/differences between Vietnam and World War I
The literature of the Vietnam Warspecific types--poetry, fiction, etc.
specific novels, poems, etc.
Vietnam War films (movies, television)
Women who served in Vietnam
The role women played in the Vietnamese military
The culture of the Sixties
Drug use in Vietnam
How Vietnam differed from other wars
The POW/MIA issue
How Vietnam affects current foreign policy
U.S. and Vietnamese military and political leaders
Specific battles (Tet, Khe Sanh, etc.)
My Lai
Cambodia and Laos during the war
Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge
Vietnam--lost or won?
U.S. relations with Vietnam in the two decades after the war.
Vietnam today
Vietnamese culture (art music, religion, customs, history)Vietnamese refugees--the boat people
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