USAs involvement

Question 1

Who was Trumans secretary of state?

Answer 1

J.F.Dulles

Question 2

In which years would talking about communism almost guarantee you a vote in a US general election?

Answer 2

1950s and 1960s

Question 3

When did Eisenhower warn that USA had developed a ‘military industrial complex’

Answer 3

1961

Question 4

How did the military and businesses gain from the conflict?

Answer 4

Government gave huge budgets to military commanders, who gave weapons contracts to big businesses

Question 5

Until 1954 what percentage of the bill for the French war in Vietnam financed by USA?

Answer 5

80%

Question 6

What did USA provide to Diem?

Answer 6

Political support and advice

Question 7

How much financial aid was provided to South Vietnam by America between 1954 and 1960?

Answer 7

$1.6 billion

Question 8

What had Kennedy promised to voters he would do?

Answer 8

Stand up to Communism

Question 9

Which plan took place in 1963 which is widely believed the CIA knew about?

Answer 9

The assasination of Diem

Question 10

By 1962 how many military advisors were providing training to the South Vietnamese army?

Answer 10

11,000

Question 11

By 1963 how many US advisors were in South Vietnam?

Answer 11

16,000

Question 12

What project did Kennedy start to try and win over the South Vietnamese people?

Answer 12

Strategic Helmets

Question 13

What did the Strategic helmets project include?

Answer 13

Moving peasants away from the vietcong into a new village surrounded by barbed wire and south vietnamese guards

Question 14

How did Johnson escalate the war?

Answer 14

Upscaled USA involvement to full scale war