Assessment 3: Economic

Question 1

Overview: three layered economy 54-74

Answer 1

base agriculture, second mining and industry, third foreign aid (britannica 98)

Question 2

North: Bombing - communist influence in north

Answer 2

started three year plans, favouring western industry and production over traditional agriculture

Question 3

North: Bombing - extraneous bombing (Herring 2014)

Answer 3

“inflicted and estimated 600 million damages on an already underdeveloped economy”

Question 4

North: Bombing - factories impact

Answer 4

factories moved underground or rurally, thousands left unemployed

Question 5

South: CORDS - prior to war

Answer 5

the ag sector in south, particularly along mekong delta, had caused greater GDP and wellbeing than in the north

Question 6

South: CORDS - chemicals

Answer 6

chemical defoliants 100,000 tons destroyed almost half of cultivated area (tully), farmers couldnt return

Question 7

South: CORDS impact of defoliation

Answer 7

hunger, starvation and poverty, mass migration to urban

Question 8

South: CORDS carrot and stick

Answer 8

CORDS was carrot, started 1967

Question 9

South: CORDS

Answer 9

1969 press packet aims to “initate economic and social actviity capabale of self sustenance and expansion”. “raise the living standards of the people”