Iraq/Vietnam Comparison Project

Military Results

World Book Online ("Iraq War" and "Vietnam War")
Gale History Resource Center
(Advanced Search for "Vietnam War" AND "battle". Go to pages 7-11 and start looking at the battle articles. These are all in the *Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War* reference source)
Gale Student Resource Center (Advanced Search for "Iraq War" AND "battles". Find the articles titled "A Centurion's Emails" and "The Most Dangerous Place")
Chicago Tribune Online (Search for "Basra" in Lead/First Paragraph AND "battle" in Lead/First Paragraph. Also search for "Fallujah" in Lead/First Paragraph AND "battle" in Lead/First Paragraph)

Media Coverage

World Book Online ("Iraq War" and "Vietnam War")
Gale History Resource Center (Advanced Search for "Vietnam War" AND "television". Go to page 4 and find the "Television" article from the *Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy* reference source. Also go to page 6 and find the "Media and the War" article from the *Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War* reference source.)
Gale Student Resource Center (Advanced Search for "Iraq War, 2003-" AND "media". Find the article titled "Networks dig in for the long haul")
Chicago Tribune Online (Search for "war" in Lead/First Paragraph AND "Iraq" in Headline AND "news coverage" in Lead/First Paragraph. Find the article titled 'Control Room' tells Al Jazeera's story". You can also search for "Iraq" in Lead/First Paragraph AND "Vietnam" in Lead/First Paragraph AND "media" in Lead/First Paragraph. Find the article titled "Media deaths in war top Vietnam era)

Public Opinion

World Book Online World Book Online ("Iraq War" and "Vietnam War")
Gale PowerSearch - create phrases, such as “public opinion” and “Iraq war”.  Click on the Books and News tabs as well as Magazines.
Gale History Resource Center (Advanced Search for "public opinion" AND "Vietnam war". Click on Periodicals tab, go to Page 8, and find the "Debating Vietnam" article
Or click on Reference tab, go to Page 2, and find the "Dissent in Wars" article.)
Do a similar search for "Iraq war" AND "public opinion"
Chicago Tribune Online (Search for "war" in Lead/First Paragraph AND "Iraq" in Headline AND "public opinion" in Lead/First Paragraph.
Click on "Edit Search" and change "Iraq" to "Vietnam"

Good Luck!

Economic Factors

World Book Online World Book Online ("Iraq War" and "Vietnam War")
Gale PowerSearch - Advanced search - combine phrases like "cost of war" with "Iraq", or combine "economics" AND "Iraq" AND "war"  Do the same search, substituting "Vietnam" for "Iraq"
Gale History Resource Center - Advanced Search - combine the phrase "Iraq war" with "U.S. economy" Click on the Periodicals tab. There's a good article on page 2 called "War meets the welfare state," but look at others, too. Check the News tab, too
Chicago Tribune Online (Search for "war" in Lead/First Paragraph AND "Iraq" in Headline AND ""U.S. economy" in All Text.

Good Luck!

 

Sources Required:

  • At least 3 articles from a database (Gale or Chicago Tribune Online)
  • At least 2 websites (Wikipedia is acceptable as a starting point)

  • 1 Encyclopedia (print or online)

  • ***You may substitute a library book for one of your database articles. We will have a cart of books in the labs!

***Use a separate GRAPHIC ORGANIZER for each
source AND for each country!***

 

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