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Vietnam - 2 Flashcards

1
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total number of days of the battle at Dien Bien Phu

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56

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2
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number of men the French lost at Dien Bien Phu

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11,500

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3
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year Ho Chi Minh and Giap first meet

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1940

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4
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year Ho Chi Minh and Giap are ready for a revolution

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1945

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5
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M/D/Y Ho Chi Minh and Giap are ready to start a revolution

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9/2/45

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6
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number of people in Giap’s family that died in French prisons

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3

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7
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people that died in a French prison

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Giap’s father, Giap’s wife, and Giap’s sister-in-law

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8
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“We’ll beat them at the moment they have the most men, the most weapons, the most hope of winning. Because all that strength will become a millstone around their necks”

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– Giap

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9
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term for the battle between the US and NVA

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Khesanh

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10
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NVA

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North Vietnamese Army

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11
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VC

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Vietcong

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12
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number of days that Khesanh lasted

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77

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13
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term for the microcosm of the Vietnam War

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Khesanh

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14
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person who had originally had no military experience at all

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Giap

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15
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term for the base of Giap’s military education

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books

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16
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age of Giap when his father died

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10

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17
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year General De Gaulle came to Phnom Pehn

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1963

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18
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person who came to Phnom Pehn

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General De Gaulle

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19
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person who ordered the dropping of agent orange

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Admiral Zumwalt

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20
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yeawr the first US Combat Troops entered Vietnam

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1965

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21
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year there was the largest number of US Combat Troops in Vietnam

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1968

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22
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year the last US Comabt Troops left Vietnam

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1973

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23
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term for the increase of troops in Vietnam

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escalation

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24
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term for the decrease of troops in Vietnam

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withdrawal

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25
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“There was a light at the end of the tunnel”

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– Westmoreland (in response to Khesanh)

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26
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M/D/Y of the Tet Offensive

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1/30/68

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27
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“if we had fought the Soviet way, we wouldn’t have lasted more than two hours”

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– Giap

28
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“We’ll take as long as necessary, 10,15, 20, 50 years, until we acheive total victory. . . We’re not in a hurry, we’re not afraid.”

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– Giap

29
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“When you go out on the battlefield, only then do you know what the war is like. The leaders above us don’t understand. We search for the enemy everywhere and find nothing, but when we think there is no enemy, the the enemy appears. There are no front lines, yet the front lines are everywhere. We see a person and are afraid. We see a child and are afraid. We see a leaf shaking, and again, we are afraid.”

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– first American lueitnant

30
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PMED extended

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Political, Military, Economic, Diplomacy

31
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“There is never a strategy that is purely military. So our strategy included everything - political, military, economic, diplomatic aspects. And it was not a war fought solely by the military; it was fought by the whole people. This is apoint that American generals and politicians didn’t understand.”

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– Giap

32
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PMED

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Giap’s strategy

33
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US president who got all combat troops out of Vietnam by 1973

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Richard Nixon

34
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US president that put all cobat troops into Vietnam in 1965

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LBJ

35
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term for the document that gave the US 60 days to get all of its troops out of Vietnam

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Paris Peace Treaty

36
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number of days the US had to get all of its troops out of Vietnam under the Paris Peace Treaty

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60

37
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term for the Vietnamese New Year

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Tet

38
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term for the groups that were on the side of communism

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VC and NVA

39
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term for the nickname of the VC

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“Charley”

40
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term for the groups on the side of democracy

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ARVN and US

41
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ARVN

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Army for the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnamese)

42
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“First of all, no nation should ever put the burden of war on its military’s forces alone. Society itself must be willing to pursue the war.”

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– General Westmoreland

43
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“Giap was not my counterpart. My position was never as exalted as his. I was a soldier obeying orders, a field commander acting within the restraints of my own country’s gov’t. Giap on the other hand, was an influential member of his own gov’t. He was a playing political as well as a military role. He may have been my adversary but certainly not my counterparty.”

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– Westy

44
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“Giap was trained in small-unit, guerilla tactics, but he persisted in waging a big-unit war with terrible losses to his men. By his own admission, by early 1969, I think he had lost, what, a half million soldiers? He reported this. Now such a disregard for human life may make for a formidable adversary, but it does not make a military genius.”

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– Westy

45
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“But the newspaper and television reporting gave the impression, if not of American and South Vietnamese defeat, then of an endless war that could never be won.”

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– Westy

46
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“When the enemy is hurting, you don’t diminish the pressure, you increase it.”

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– Westy

47
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person who was in charge of the US military troops from 1964-1968

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Westy

48
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bookend years that Westy was in charge of the US military troops

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1964-1968

49
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term for the person that Westy had to talk to in order to get more things such as men or supplies

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secretary of defense

50
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term for the middle man who would talk to the Presidnet and give him his reccomendation on the General in field’s request

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secretary of defense

51
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term for the comparison of the number of deaths between two opposing forces and the measurement of the US winning

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body count

52
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“The enemy was soundly defeat”

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– Westy

53
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”. . . despite the final failure of the South Vietnamese, the record of the American military forces, of never having lost a war, is still intact.”

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– Westy

54
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M/D/Y South Vietnman became a communist country

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4/30/75

55
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M/D/Y Saigon falls

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4/30/75

56
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year Westy dies

A

2005

57
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total number of communists (NVA/VC) that died during the Tet Offensive

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32,000

58
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number of American that died during the Tet Offensive

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1,001

59
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number of allied forces that died during the Tet Offensive

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2,000

60
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ratio of death of the NVA/VC to the Americans

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10:1

61
Q

person who was secretary of defense

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Robert McNamara

62
Q

person who was head of the Ford Motor Company

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McNamara

63
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person who brought about the idea of the body count to measure success

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McNamara

64
Q

Paris Peace Treat was signed

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1/27/73

65
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term for the event where the NVA and VC launched 70-100 surprise attacks on cities and villages in South Vietnam

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Tet Offensive

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