The Vietnam war

Question 1

By 1885 who had the french colonised?

Answer 1

• Vietnam along with Cambodia and Laos

which was then called the French Indo - China

Question 2

when and who founded the Vietnamese communist party?

Answer 2

1930

Vo Nguyen Giap and Ho Chi Mihn (nationalist)

Question 3

when did the Japanese invade Vietnam?

Answer 3

During WW2 in 1940

Question 4

what did Ho create in 1941

Answer 4

The Vietminh (The league for the independence of Vietnam)

Question 5

guerrilla war

Answer 5

a war in which small groups of soldiers not belonging to regular or established army units engage in fighting against typically larger regular forces

Question 6

what did the OSS become

Answer 6

CIA

Question 7

in the guerrilla war what was everyone’s role

Answer 7

Hi Chi Mihn - Political leader

Vo Nguyen Giap - As a military leader

Question 8

How and when did Japan rule Vietnam

Answer 8

During ww2 when france was occupied by Nazi Germany it lost its foothold in Vietnam and Japan took control

Question 9

when did Ho chi Mihn declare Vietnam independent?

Answer 9

When Japan Surrendered at the end of ww2 Ho chi Mihn forces took the capital of Hanoi and declared Vietnam independent

Question 10

what was vietnams new independent name

Answer 10

democratic republic of vietnam

Question 11

did french accept the independence?

Answer 11

no they refused to recognise it and returned to vietnam driving Hos communist forces into Northen Vietnam

Question 12

why didn’t USA aid vietnam?

Answer 12

becuase if the cold war with the communist USSR it disrupted Hos communist leanings and aided the french instead

Question 13

why did the french leave

Answer 13

Until 1945 when a defeat at Dien Bien Phu prompted france to seek a peace settlement

Question 14

what did the Geneva Accords declare

Answer 14

In 1954 the Geneva Accords declared a cease fire and divided vietnam officially into North and Sound Vietnam

Question 15

Where was the dividing line set

Answer 15

at the 17th Parallel and was surrounded by a demilitarised zone

Question 16

what did the Geneva Accords Stipulate

Answer 16

The geneva accords Stipulated that the divide was temporary and that vietnam was to be reunified under free elections to be held in 1956

Question 17

Who lead north vietnam

Answer 17

Ho chi Mihn

Question 18

Who lead south vietnam

Answer 18

Ngo Dihn Diem (a french backed emperor)

Question 19

the domino theory believed what

Answer 19

that the fall of North Vietnam to communist might trigger all of south East Asia to fall

Question 20

who invented the domino theory

Answer 20

Dwight Eisenhower

Question 21

who was the diem regime

Answer 21

a strongly anti-communism leader with french connections who was cruel corrupt and oppressive

Question 22

what happened in 1962 to avoid diem regime

Answer 22

John F Kennedy sent “military advisors” to help train the south vietnam army but realised diem regime was unsalvageable

Question 23

what did the US do in 1963

Answer 23

they backed a coup that overthrew diem and installed a new leader who was just as corrupt

Question 24

ARVN

Answer 24

army of republic vietnam (south vietnam army)

Question 25

who was kennedys successor

Answer 25

Lyndon B johnson

Question 26

what happened at the gulf of tonkin

Answer 26

North vietnam forces allegedly attacked US Navy ships

Question 27

the gulf of tonkin resolution

Answer 27

sent us troops to vietnam | - bombing campaigns like operation rolling thunder ensued that the conflict escalated

Question 28

what was the strategy of attrition

Answer 28

the us attempted to bury the vietnamese in casualties

Question 29

guerilla tactic

Answer 29

the tactics of hit and run and ambushing american troops and escaping before being captured

Question 30

napalm

Answer 30

a jellied gas in warfare that burnt you alive

Question 31

agent orange county

Answer 31

a tactical herbicide the U.S. military used to clear leaves and vegetation for military operations mainly during the Vietnam War. Veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange may have certain related illness

Question 32

yet offensive

Answer 32

1968 attacking nearly thirty U.S. targets and dozens of other cities in South Vietnam at once.

Question 33

why was it considered a loss by american media

Answer 33

the Us won a tactical victory but it was so humiliating that it was classified as a loss and american morale was at an all time low

Question 34

in 1968 what did the low morale americans do

Answer 34

they cause the Mai also massacre in which frustrated U.S. soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians in a small village

Question 35

what did Nixons policy of vietnamisation promised

Answer 35

it was promising to withdraw U.S. troops gradually and hand over management of the war effort to the South Vietnamese.

Question 36

did nixon hold onto his promise

Answer 36

Nixon made good on his promise, he also illegally expanded the geographic scope of the war by authorizing the bombing of Viet Cong sites in the neutral nations of Cambodia and Laos, thank all without the knowledge or consent of the U.S. Congress.

Question 37

what did nixons illegal actions cause?

Answer 37

caused an enormous scandal in the United States and forced Nixon to push for a peace settlement.

Question 38

when was the cease fire signed?

Answer 38

January 1973 and the last US personnel left vietnam in March 1973

Question 39

did the US government continue to fun the south vietnamese?

Answer 39

The U.S. government continued to fund the South Vietnamese army, but this funding quickly dwindled.

Question 40

why did the US fund south vietnam

Answer 40

because they were communist like the US

Question 41

what was the watergate scandal

Answer 41

i think it’s when he did illegal stuff but it led to his resignation

Question 42

what was the all out offensive

Answer 42

when the north vietnamese stepped up their tactics on the south and the capital of south vietnam (Saigon) fell to North vietnam

Question 43

after the vietnam war what did north vietnam do?

Answer 43

reunited the country under Communist rule as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, ending the Vietnam War.