The End of French Colonial Rule

Question 1

When did USA give transport planes to the French?

Answer 1

30th June 1950

Question 2

How many transport planes did the USA give the French on 30th June 1950?

Answer 2

8

Question 3

What arrived from the USA to the French later in 1950?

Answer 3

A ship crammed with military goods arrived in Saigon

Question 4

What was the USA aiding the French with?

Answer 4

10,000 tons of equipment per month

$500 million per year for the French

Question 5

What % of the French war with the Viet Minh did the USA cover?

Answer 5

75-80%

Question 6

When was communist victory in China?

Answer 6

1949

Question 7

What did Ho Chi Minh receive from communist China after 1949?

Answer 7

Help due to him starting to become more communist

Question 8

What did Ho Chi Minh want for Vietnam? What were the Americans concerned at?

Answer 8

Independence

Americans concerned at this spread of communism

Question 9

Where did the French and Viet Minh generally control?

Answer 9

French generally controlled the towns

Viet Minh dominated the countryside

Question 10

What did the Viet Minh’s domination of the countryside allow them to do?

Answer 10

Use guerrilla tactics

The French found them impossible to beat

Question 11

How many French soldiers were tied up by the Viet Minh’s hit and run raids?

Answer 11

190,000

Question 12

How many French casualties did the Viet Minh’s hit and run raids cause?

Answer 12

The raids caused over 90,000 French casualties

Question 13

How many French troops died?

Answer 13

73,000

Question 14

When was the Battle of Dien Bien Phu?

Answer 14

1954

Question 15

Who were comprehensively defeated by the Viet Minh at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu?

Answer 15

A large well armed force of French paratroopers

Question 16

How many French died at Dien Bien Phu?

Answer 16

1600

Question 17

How many French were wounded at Dien Bien Phu?

Answer 17

5000

Question 18

How many Viet Minh died at Dien Bien Phu?

Answer 18

7,900

Question 19

How many Viet Minh were wounded?

Answer 19

15,000

Question 20

How many French were captured by the Viet Minh at Dien Bien Phu? What happened to them?

Answer 20

8000
Marched them off on foot on a 500 mile trek to prison camps
Fewer than half survived

Question 21

What was devastated after Dien Bien Phu?

Answer 21

The French war effort

Question 22

Who was the Viet Minh Commander?

Answer 22

Vo Nguyen Giap

Question 23

What did Vo Nguyen Giap say in a speech after Dien Bien Phu in 1954?

Answer 23

A poor feudal nation had beaten a great colonial power

It meant a lot, not just to us, but to people all over the world

Question 24

What allowed a small Asian state to defeat a rich European power?

Answer 24

A combination of effective leadership, guerrilla tactics and sheer determination (peasants carried the Viet Minh’s supplies by hand)

Question 25

What did China and the USSR help to provide the Viet Minh with?

Answer 25

Modern weapons

Question 26

What did the modern weapons from China and the USSR allow the Viet Minh to do?

Answer 26

Confront and defeat the French in open battle

Question 27

What did the French do in retaliation to the Viet Minh’s guerrilla tactics?

Answer 27

Attempted to control the countryside

Question 28

How did the French attempt to invade the countryside of Vietnam? What was the result of this?

Answer 28

Raiding peasant villages

Increased popular support for the Viet Minh