Vietnam

Question 1

When did Vietnam become French again

Answer 1

1945

Question 2

When did Ho Chi Min found the ICP (Indochinese Communist party)

Answer 2

1930

Question 3

When WW2 began, what was the group that resisted the Japanese and when?

Answer 3

Viet Minh, supported by USA in 1941

Question 4

Where did the French attack in 1946

Answer 4

Haipong

Question 5

When did the Viet Minh attack Dien Bien Phu?

Answer 5

1954

Question 6

After French defeat what parallel was Vietnam split on?

Answer 6

17th

Question 7

Who led the South after the Geneva conference?

Answer 7

Ngo Dinh Diem

Question 8

In 1957 who did the Viet Minh create?

Answer 8

Viet Cong

Question 9

In what year did the USSR try to make a permanent split between North and South but USA refused?

Answer 9

1957

Question 10

In what year did Ho Chi Minh declare a revolution?

Answer 10

1959

Question 11

When and why did the USA start military action?

Answer 11

1964 and Gulf of Tonkin incident

Question 12

How long did Diem Bien Phu siege last

Answer 12

55 days - 7th may

Question 13

At the Geneva conference it was agreed elections would be held in what year

Answer 13

1956

Question 14

When was Geneva convention

Answer 14

1954

Question 15

How did congress vote for action in Vietnam

Answer 15

416-0

Question 16

Examples of Guerilla Warfare

Answer 16

Steal weapons
Set traps
Surprise attacks
Helped by villagers

Question 17

Why did the Viet Cong have an advantage

Answer 17

Did not wear uniform
Reliable Russian guns
Helped by villagers

Question 18

What wear US tactics

Answer 18

Rolling thunder 
Search and destroy 
Napalm
Agent orange
Hearts and minds

Question 19

What was hearts and minds

Answer 19

Use of honourable tactics

Question 20

When was Mai Lai Massacre

Answer 20

March 16th 1968

Question 21

How many people died in the Mai Lai Massacre

Answer 21

147-500

Question 22

Who led Mai Lai Massacre

Answer 22

Calley

Question 23

When did the American public learn about the Mai Lai Massacre

Answer 23

18 months after, they were horrified and see themselves as no better than the enemy, Calley sentenced to life imprisonment

Question 24

What was the Vietnam Day committee

Answer 24

36 hour teach in
30,000 students
1965

Question 25

Want happened at Kent State university

Answer 25

4 shot dead
100,000 demonstrators marched at Washington
1970

Question 26

When was the Tet offensive

Answer 26

31st January 1968

Question 27

How many places in Tet offensive?

Answer 27

Over 100

Question 28

Why did the Viet Cong lose the Tet offensive

Answer 28

30,000 dead

People didn’t stand up to help them

Question 29

Why did America lose the Tet offensive

Answer 29

Public saw fighting in Saigon and saw it as not winnable

US embassy in Saigon captured

Question 30

When was footage shown of child running away from a Napalm

Answer 30

1965

Question 31

When did CBS show a GI set fire to a peasants home

Answer 31

1965

Question 32

What were the Fulbright hearings

Answer 32

A series of court hearings in the US senate, opposed US involvement in Vietnam

Question 33

Why did peace talks break down in 1968?

Answer 33

Couldn’t agree on a table

Question 34

When and what was Vietnamisation

Answer 34

1969, withdrawal of US troops

Question 35

How many troops pulled out of Vietnam by 1971

Answer 35

400,000

Question 36

When was a ceasefire agreed

Answer 36

Paris, January 1973

Question 37

What were the effects of Paris conference

Answer 37

US prisoners released
North Vietnam recognised south Vietnam
Elections were to be held

Question 38

When did the North take the South

Answer 38

1975