Vietnam

Question 1

By whom was occupied Indochina? Since when?

Answer 1

France

late nineteenth century

Question 2

Who founded the communist party and when ?

Answer 2

Ho Chi Minh

1930

Question 3

Who controlled the North Vietnam after the WW2?

Answer 3

Viet Minh

Question 4

How long the Indochina independence war was ?

Answer 4

1946-1954

Question 5

What is the event that ended the Indochina war?

Answer 5

French defeat at Dien Bien Phu

Question 6

What is the Geneva’s conference?

Answer 6

the peace conference to normalized the relationship with France and Vietnam.

Question 7

Who are the Viet Cong? How many people belonged to this organization in 1965?

Answer 7

Communist support in the South.

170 000

Question 8

Date Vietnam War

Answer 8

1963-1975

Question 9

By whom Viet Cong was support?

Answer 9

Ho Chi Minh
USSR
China

Question 10

What did the Vietnamese use against Americans?

Answer 10

Guerilla is an unconventional war of ambushes and boody traps.

Question 11

How was the US expérience in Vietnam?

Answer 11

A nightmare

they lived in constant fear

Question 12

What is the assessment of the war deadly speaking?

Answer 12

1 million for communist

300 000 for the rest with 60 000 American soldiers

Question 13

For what Americans were critized?

Answer 13

bombings and use chemical weapons

Question 14

When there is a lunch of communism?

Answer 14

1968

Question 15

What is the Tet offensive? How what it ?

Answer 15

Viet Cong attacked over 100 cities and tried to take the control of the US embassy in Saigon in the hope the South Vietnamese joined them.
That was a DISASTER and Viet Cong lose 10 000 soldiers.

Question 16

What was the approach of the media about this war?

Answer 16

Highly instrumentalized: media war. Television showed awful things.

Question 17

What is a major event that shocked a lot of Americans?

Answer 17

My Lai massacre in March 1968. 300 civilians were killed.

Question 18

How many American protesters in November 1969 in Washington DC?

Answer 18

700 000

Question 19

What did President Johnson figure out?

Answer 19

The war could be not won militarily.

Question 20

Who was the President at the end of the war?

Answer 20

Nixon.

Question 21

What did North Vietnam intend to do in 1972?

Answer 21

a major offensive in the South. But they were unable to conquer the South.

Question 22

Where and when a peace agreement is signed?

Answer 22

Paris, January 1973.

Question 23

When the last forces leave Vietnam?

Answer 23

March 1973.