A Crossroads Resource

Unit XI: Leader of the Free World: 1945-1975

Question/Problem 4: How and why did the Vietnam War divide Americans?


Divisive Issue: Napalm

Directions: Locate passages describing the use of napalm as a weapon during the Vietnam War. Two such passages can be found in the following sources: _America and Vietnam: The Elephant and the Tiger_ by Albert Marrin (New York: Viking, 1992), pp. 141-143; _Vietnam: A War on Two Fronts by Sidney Lens (New York: Lodestar Books, 1990), p.46. (Permission to reprint passage not granted.)


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