Lesson Plan: MUSICAL REACTIONS TO THE VIETNAM WAR

ESSENTIAL QUESTION How were American’s divisive opinions over the Vietnam War articulated by musicians in the 1960s and early 1970s?

OVERVIEW In the years following World War II, a brief period of American euphoria gave way to fear of a new antagonist: communism. Though the U.S. and the Soviet Union were allies during the war, Soviet efforts to rebuild Eastern Europe in its own image led to an American fear of ever-spreading communism and caused a rift between the two countries. Allies no longer, the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in an indirect conflict known as the Cold War from 1947 until the communist government collapsed in 1991. From: TeachRock.org