confrontation and cooperation

Question 1

when was the first taiwan strait crisis

Answer 1

1954

Question 2

cause of 1st taiwan stait crisis

Answer 2

mao decides to bomb island quemay because he wants taiwan

Question 3

when was the 2nd strait crisis

Answer 3

1958

Question 4

cause of 2nd strait crisis

Answer 4

mao shells quemay again because he wants to test us resolve and unite people against common enemy

Question 5

khrushchev opinion of 1st and 2nd strait crisis

Answer 5

• 1st backed mao publicly but was conscious that china could drag the soviets into global thinking
• 2nd publicly khrushchev backed but privately was furious - saw mao as dangerous

Question 6

when was the great leap forward

Answer 6

1958

Question 7

how did role of personalities cause sino soviet split

Answer 7

• khrushchev reconciled relationship with tito
• mao humiliated khrushchev on his first visit to china by swimming when khrushchev couldn’t
• mao didn’t like peaceful coexistence
• taiwan strait crisis
• mao thought he was at least equal to khrushchev

Question 8

how did ideology cause sino soviet split

Answer 8

• great leap forward demonstrated a different economic path
• khrushchev too timid

Question 9

what challenges did lbj face

Answer 9

• he was unelected
• instability of diem assassination

Question 10

when was the gulf of tonkin incident

Answer 10

august 7 1964

Question 11

when was gulf of tonkin resolution

Answer 11

august 7 1964

Question 12

why was the gulf of tonkin attack significant

Answer 12

• attack on us naval vessel didn’t actually happen
• response of us forces was unfounded

Question 13

what didn’t lbj want to war to become

Answer 13

americanised

Question 14

evidence of lbj continuing jfks approach

Answer 14

increased advisors to 23000 and stuck to counterinsurgency

Question 15

what was the gulf of tonkin resolution

Answer 15

gave lbj the ability to take whatever action he thought necessary in vietnam without consulting congress

Question 16

evidence of escalation in the vietnam war under lbj

Answer 16

• china agreed to provide military supplies for nv
• the ussr established firm diplomatic links nlf
• arvn had low morale

Question 17

when was operation rolling thunder

Answer 17

february 1965

Question 18

what was in north vietnams 4 point proposal

Answer 18

• us troops withdraw from sv
• neither nv or sv may enter into many military alliance with a foreign power
• sv internal affairs settled by people of sv
• reunification settled by people of each zone

Question 19

how many ground troops in vietnam by 1965

Answer 19

75000

Question 20

what was la drang

Answer 20

• first major engagement between americans and vietcong
• us thought it was a war of attrition and could win it
• us killed large numbers, vc returned to the area following

Question 21

when was la drang

Answer 21

november 1965

Question 22

why was 1968 a turning point in the war

Answer 22

• weren’t defeating vc but weren’t being defeated either
• increasing domestic opposition (mlk & mcnamara)
• general westmoreland has assured the people of america that the war is being won

Question 23

when was the tet offensive

Answer 23

jan - feb 1968

Question 24

what was the tet offensive

Answer 24

a series of attacks against us targets in towns and cities in south vietnam, wanted to stimulate an uprising against thieu in the south

Question 25

us successes in tet

Answer 25

• arvn forces fought well
• attack on presidential palace of general thieu was beaten off
• 60000 dead communists

Question 26

communist tet successes

Answer 26

embarrassing and worrying for the americans that vc had even come close

Question 27

us failures in viet war

Answer 27

• bombing - rolling thunder and naplam and agent orange
• search and destroy
• failure to win hearts and minds
• arvn weaknesses
• us personnel weaknesses
• negative influence of us on the country

Question 28

strengths of north vietnamese

Answer 28

• attitude and number of fighters
• ho chi minh trail
• guerilla warfare
• soviet/chinese aid

Question 29

when was the paris peace agreement

Answer 29

1973

Question 30

what was stated in the paris peace agreement

Answer 30

a ceasefire would begin in january 1973, each sides forces would keep the area they controlled at the time of the ceasefire, within 60 days us withdraw forces and free elections to be held

Question 31

when did sv surrender to nv

Answer 31

april 1975

Question 32

impact of the vietnam war on vietnam

Answer 32

• birth defects
• could not export enough rice to feed themselves
• 2 million killed
• communist takeover of the south
• reeducation programs forced into hard labour
• boat people died on sea

Question 33

nixon’s us policy in vietnam/cold war

Answer 33

peace with honour, realpolitik, triangular diplomacy

Question 34

examples of domestic opposition to vietnam

Answer 34

• kent state shootings in 1970
• king and bobby kennedy assassinated in 1968
• my lai massacre becomes public knowledge in 1969

Question 35

what was stated in the nixon doctrine

Answer 35

america is not going to put their army into wars anymore, the individual countries will assume the responsibility and manpower

Question 36

what is vietnamisation

Answer 36

the withdrawal of us forces and their replacement by south vietnamese forces

Question 37

figures of us troops between 69 and 72

Answer 37

69 - 543000
72 - 47000