VIETNAM PEOPLE AND THINGS

Question 1

Dwight
Eisenhower

Answer 1

President 1953-1961. Author of Domino
Theory. Gave $3 billion to French.

Question 2

Dinh Diem

Answer 2

President of South Vietnam, heavily
supported by U.S government.

Question 3

Madame Nhu

Answer 3

Wife of Diem’s brother. Unsympathetic to
Buddhists.

Question 4

Ho Chi Minh

Answer 4

Leader of the Vietminh independence
fighters and later communist North
Vietnam.

Question 5

John. F.
Kennedy

Answer 5

President 1961-1963, sent 16,000
military advisors to support ARVN.

Question 6

General
Westmoreland

Answer 6

Led U.S forces in Vietnam after 1964.
Replaced after Tet Offensive.

Question 7

Lyndon Baines
Johnson

Answer 7

President 1963-1969. Sent US troops to
Vietnam. Escalated the war.

Question 8

Indochina

Answer 8

French controlled region that included
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia.

Question 9

ARVN

Answer 9

South Vietnamese army trained and
supported by U.S.

Question 10

Vietminh

Answer 10

Communist group that fought to kick out
Japan then France to win independence.

Question 11

Vietcong

Answer 11

Communist group rebelling against
Diem’s South Vietnamese government

Question 11

Search and
Destroy

Answer 11

US tactic to seek out and destroy
Vietcong or supplies they may use.

Question 12

Ho Chi Minh Trail

Answer 12

Enabled North Vietnam to smuggle
equipment to the Vietcong in South.

Question 12

Strategic Hamlets

Answer 12

Diem forced 2/3 of the peasant
population to relocate away from
Vietcong controlled areas.

Question 13

Walter
Cronkite

Answer 13

Best known newsreader in the USA. He
began to question the Vietnam War in his
news broadcasts.

Question 14

Nixon

Answer 14

President of the USA (1968-74). He
introduced Vietnamisation.

Question 15

John
Lennon

Answer 15

A musician who used music to protest
against the Vietnam war.

Question 16

Martin Luther King

Answer 16

Civil Rights activitist who protested the
Vietnam War as the money spent on it
could be used to improve America.

Question 17

Muhammad Ali

Answer 17

A Nation of Islam activist who protested
the war by burning the draft.

Question 18

Le Duc
Tho

Answer 18

North Vietnam’s Chief Negotiator in the
Paris Peace talks.

Question 19

My Lai
Massacre

Answer 19

1968 massacre of 347-504 unarmed citizens
by the Americans which changed the tide of
support for the war.

Question 20

Khmer
Rouge

Answer 20

Communist organisation in Cambodia.

Question 21

Operation
Barrel Roll

Answer 21

Secret bombing campaign in Cambodia
and Laos to destroy the Ho Chi Minh trail
and Vietcong bases.

Question 22

Vietnamisation

Answer 22

Nixon’s Secret Plan to end America’s
involvement in Vietnam.

Question 23

Peace
with
Honour

Answer 23

Nixon’s pledge to end the war with no
appearance of defeat for the American’s.