US Involvement in Vietnam Escalting

Question 1

When was Step 1?

Answer 1

1945-1949

Question 2

What was step 1?

Answer 2

No direct involvement

Question 3

Who did the US unofficial support in step 1? Why was this?

Answer 3

Ho Chi Minh

They didn’t like European colonies

Question 4

When did USA realise Ho Chi Minh was Communist?

Answer 4

1949 when China started supporting him

Question 5

What did step 2 involve?

Answer 5

Financial involvement- supporting the failing French

Question 6

When was step 2?

Answer 6

1949-1954

Question 7

When was the war between the French and Viet Minh?

Answer 7

1946-54

Question 8

When was step 3?

Answer 8

1955-62

Question 9

What did step 3 involve?

Answer 9

Political involvement (supporting Ngo Dinh Diem)

Question 10

What was step 4?

Answer 10

Non combative military advisors

Question 11

When was step 4?

Answer 11

1962-65

Question 12

What did Kennedy send to fight the Viet Cong?

Answer 12

Military advisors

Question 13

What did Kennedy introduce in 1962?

Answer 13

The Strategic Hamlet Relocation Programme

Moved peasants from VC areas to areas controlled by South Vietnamese government

Question 14

How many military advisors were there in South Vietnam by 1962? What had this risen to by the end of 1964?

Answer 14

11,500

23,000

Question 15

When was Kennedy assassinated?

Answer 15

1963

Question 16

What was Kennedy’s successor- Lyndon B Johnson- prepared to start?

Answer 16

A war to prevent the spread of communism

Question 17

When was the Gulf of Tonkin?

Answer 17

August 1964