Monday, March 24, 2008

Service Learning

In the Service Learning, I was interested in the Chinese teaching. We could teach some children whether their parents or they want to learn. To me, the Service Learning is important, because we could help people during the service, and there would be so many funs to help them.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Primary Source and Second Source

Primary Source

http://www.pbs.org.wgbh/amex/vietnam/pscourse/ps_tonkingulf.html
2/02/2008
(President Johnson's Message to Congress)

http://www.pbs.org.wgbh/amex/vietnam/pscourse/ps_kennedy.html
1/27/2008
(President Kennedy's letter to Ngi Dinh Diem)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam-War
1/28/2008
This website explains the war was took place from 1965 to April 30, 1975, and it was fought between South and North Vietnam for unify the country, and ended with defeat of South Vietnam.

http://www.vietnampix.com/intro2.htm
2/04/2008
This website explains fear the spread of communist cause many countries involved in this war.


Secondary Source

http://www.vietvet.org/thewall.htm
1/02/2008
This is a website that talk about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. There were million of name who died during the war.
http://history1900s.about.com/od/vietnamwar.a.vietnamtimeline.htm
1/04/2008
This website shows the timeline in that time.

http://www.bookrage.com/history/vietnam-war/sub9.html
1/04/2008
(America Begins to Get Out of Vietnam)

http://www.infoplease.com/co6/history/A0850869.html
2/01/2008
This website explained a short concept pf the Vietnam War

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/psourse/ps_policy.html
2/02/2008
(American Policy in Vietnam)
http://www,pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/timeline/index.html
1/27/2008
This is a website that has a timeline of Vietnam after World War II
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0861797.html
1/27/2008
(End of the War)
This website explains the end of the war, that Vietnam was formally reunified in July, 1976, and Saigo was renamed Ho Chi Minh City.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/what_were_the_cause_of_the_vietnam_war
2/04/2008
This website explains the cause of the Vietnam War.
http://www.infoplease.com/co6/history/A0861794.html
2/02/2008
(Cause and Early Years)
This website describes the way president Diem stopped the reunification of Vietnam.

http://www.vietnamwar.com/
1/24/2008
This website explains the division of Vietnam into North and South.
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http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/vietnam/index.cfm
1/28/2008
This source shows Vietnam became independence from French and than divided into North and South Vietnam. By 1958, Communist-led guerrillas known as the Viet Cong had begun to battle the South Vietnam government.

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=516
1/09/2008
This website shows that the war which resulted in nearly 60.000 American deaths and an estimated 2 million Vietnam deaths, and an anti-war protests became a feature of American life.

http://www.42explore2.com/vietnam.htm
1/24/2008
This website described the United States involved in this war in March 1965, fighting for South Vietnam for several years then the United States slowly began to pull their troops out of Vietnam, because of the anti-war in their own country, and the war was finally ended with defeat South Vietnam.
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
1/11/2008
This website explains by 1973, United States soldiers were no longer in Vietnam, as a result, American sent less and less money and weaponry to South Vietnam. North Vietnam made a massive military attack in 1974on South Vietnam. North and South Vietnam became a single country again on July 2, 1976, and this is now called the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/essays/cot/t3w30vietnamwar.htm
01/21/2008
(Ho Chi Minh)
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http://www.cyberessays.com/History/103.htm
1/22/2008
This website tell that the government leaders began an economic plan in 1986, when aid from the Soviet Union stopped, the country was able to stand on its own. The government fears that if contact with the United States increases, it might result in a revolution that would destroy their authority.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/vietnam.htm
1/22/2008
This website shows that the U.S eventually fielded an army of over 500.000 men and engaged in extensive air and naval warfare again North Vietnam, which actions caused a civil war in their country.

http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/vietnamwar/p/VietnamBrief.htm
1/21/2008
This website explains the division of Vietnam into two part--communist and noncommunist, the United States tried to stopped the communist, send army to South Vietnam, and help them to defeat North Vietnam.
http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/vietnamwar/p/VietnamBrief.htm
1/28/2008
This website explains the end of the war and the fall of Saigon.

http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/vietnamwar/p/VietnamBrief.htm
2/01/2008
This website describe about the The Tet Offensive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Effects_on_Vietnam
1/12/2008
This website explains the effect on Vietnam.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#China
1/19/2008
This website describes the involvement of China in 1949.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Philippines
1/14/2008
This website explains the involvement of Philippines.

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761552642
1/19/2008
This website tell about before the Vietnam War, French invaded Vietnam and made it s a colony of them for a hundrel year, and then Vietnam escaped from their rule, became independent.

http://history1900s.about.com/od/vietnamwar/a/vietnamwar.htm
2/02/2008
This website explains the Vietnam War was struggle between nationalist forces attempting to unify the whole country of Vietnam under the communist government, and the United Stated tried to prevent the spread pf communist, but the U.S leaders lost the American public's support for the war in Vietnam.
http://www.vietnampix.com/intro.htm
2/04/2008
This website shows that in 1950 the United States began to send troops to Vietnam. During the war almost 3 million US men and women were send to there to fought for the Vietnamese to do what the Vietnamese should to do for themselves. It is estimated that over 2.5 million people on both sides were killed.

Process paper

Group Member:
Amy
Chen Xian
Linfeng Yang
Hong Lin

Teacher: Miss Mahdi

The Vietnam War was the longest war in the United Stated history, American fear the spread of communist, then send their soldier, money and weapons to support South Vietnam where thousand miles away from American.


We are doing the documentary for the Vietnam War. The topic for our NHD Project is why American involved in the Vietnam War. It got us interested in the topic, because it is a disaster in the American history which causes an anti-war in their own country, when the Vietnam War start many of the American college students were protesting the United Stated being in Vietnam. If I was a college student in 1960-1970, I would also want to protest the war.

During the work, we had interviewed a man who had been sending to South Vietnam for fighting when he was 19 years old. In common, many people at that age would enjoy their time with their friends or family, but because of the Vietnam War, a war that wastes people time and life,

When we first start the project, we thought it was just a common war. But gradually, we know it was a unpopulated war. The Vietnam was a colony of French under their govern for a hundred years. And it then escaped from France, then the Vietnam separate into two parts, one is communist government(the North Vietnam), another part is noncommunist government (the South Vietnam), and the war was start for reunify the whole country, it began from 1959 to April 30,1975.

Doing the work, we had faced many challenges, such as we need to check the truth of the information whether is right or not. We should go to he library or Internet to research the sources, and finally, fix them for organized information. When we doing the project, because of the language problem, we can’t easy understand the main point of the source. But we finally overcome it, we asked our tutor to explains the mainly thinks for us, and we also looked for some information about Vietnam War written in Chinese.

At the end of the war the United States began to pull their troops out of Vietnam. The involvement of American made their people angry. The war killed American boys in the war, it dropped the United States into a terrible time. Many younger people were drafted in the services for the war, the United States government put some National-Guidemen to stop the protest in the college, and sometimes they kill the protestor. The war was finally ended with defeat South Vietnam, North Vietnam unify the whole country under the communist government.

People asked us why we chosen the documentary, because we think the documentary could effectible and easier et people understand the whole thing. It is vivid than those like exhibit or paper. It let people feel not that boring, it had a condign attraction.