Assessment 3: Health

Question 1

Search and Destroy: stick

Answer 1

s and d sent platoons to villages to uncover and kill VC

Question 1

Search and Destroy: propoganda

Answer 1

anti-com propoganda and dissention towards war made soldiers brutally violent towards VC

Question 2

Search and Destroy: dispatches memoir as correspondant

Answer 2

Michael Herr: more a gestalt than a tactic. in action it should have been named the other way around

Question 3

Search and Destroy: deliberate

Answer 3

violence

Question 4

Search and Destroy: My Lai

Answer 4

Charlie Company March 1968 in Son My region, discovered no VC, Lt William Calley ordered to fire, 300-500 dead

Question 5

Search and Destroy: Meadlo source

Answer 5

men, women, children and babies

Question 6

Northern Violence: similar VC (Gibson)

Answer 6

Dak Son village 1967, killed with flamethrowers, burnt people alive

Question 7

Northern Violence: VC collaboration

Answer 7

killed 250 a week in North for not collaborating, teachers, police, priests etc

Question 8

South Chemicals: Kennedy approved

Answer 8

operation ranch Hand

Question 9

South Chemicals: agent orange had dioxin

Answer 9

entered waterways and soilbeds, causing cancer, skin disease, uterine cancer, malformed babies

Question 10

forced urbanisation led to disease

Answer 10

poor management, malaria, typhoid and bubonic plague (Gibson)