President Summaries

President Summaries For each President (beginning with Truman) you should create a page that summarises the key factors that would influence their involvement in Vietnam. This should also enable you to identify change and continuity across the period and consolidate your knowledge. For each summary you should have the following sections: • • • • • • • •

A picture Character (what type of person were they? How did this influence their policies in Vietnam?) Leadership Skills (any previous experience? how did they lead their departments? What was their style of leadership?) Other Key Individuals (eg Secretaries of State whose opinions the president relied upon) Domestic Policy (often has a bearing on Vietnam, include dissent towards these policies) Foreign Policy (what were policies overall- again they will influence policies towards Vietnam, also include dissent) Ideology (‘theories’, quotes can show this, changes over their term of office too) Overall assessment of their presidential influence over the way that the USA became more involved I Vietnam.

Be careful: If you have written more than a page of A4 then you have not selected your information. This is something you need to be able to do for both pieces of work in this topic.