Vietnam War

Question 1

When were the French forces defeated in Vietnam?

Answer 1

1954 at Dien Bien Phu

Question 2

Geneva Accords

Answer 2

1954 - Vietnam divided on 17th parallel into a Communist north and democratic south pending elections

Question 3

Ngo Dinh Diem

Answer 3

President of South Vietnam, led a corrupt government

Question 4

Ho Chi Minh

Answer 4

Led resistance against the French (Vietminh)

Question 5

Vietminh

Answer 5

Independence League - Fought French

Question 6

ARVN

Answer 6

Army of South Vietnam

Question 7

Vietcong

Answer 7

Communist supporters in the South

Question 8

Ho Chi Minh Trail

Answer 8

A trail just inside the border that delivered materials to the Vietcong from the North

Question 9

What happened in 1963?

Answer 9

Diem ousted in US supported coup

Question 10

Gulf of Tonkin

Answer 10

East Coast of North Vietnam: US destroyers Maddox, Turner Joy and Ticonderoga: 1964: fake attack on the destroyers: caused US to escalate the war

Question 11

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Answer 11

Gave president a blank check to do whatever he deemed necessary in Vietnam

Question 12

Lyndon B Johnson

Answer 12

Took office in 1963 with assassination of Kennedy:

Question 13

Operation Rolling Thunder

Answer 13

1965 - bombing campaign against North: coincided with bringing of the marines: “Carrot and Stick” mentality: US on offensive now

Question 14

Year of first mass demonstration

Answer 14

1965

Question 15

Year of the draft

Answer 15

1965

Question 16

Nguyen Van Thieu

Answer 16

1967 - South Vietnamese president

Question 17

Tet Offensive

Answer 17

1968 - VC lured US troops away from Saigon: took the embassy: media captured whole thing: Double victory –> Undermined US confidence + prevented South communists from challenging the North: public opinion continued to drop

Question 18

Search and Destroy

Answer 18

Helicopter war: war of attrition –> kill as many of the enemy as possible: instead of winning the south, turned against because of high civilian casualty count

Question 19

Helicopter war

Answer 19

Helicopters would drop men in jungle, kill some VC, flee in helicopter so VC could easily take the land right back –> US wasn’t interested in land

Question 20

Limited war

Answer 20

No nuclear weapons: containment

Question 21

Sea and Air Campaign

Answer 21

“Market Time” 1965-1971: Take southern coast for bases and staging areas

Question 22

Ground war

Answer 22

Chemical warfare: Agent Orange: Napalm

Question 23

Draft deferment

Answer 23

For wealthy, college students, teachers: working man’s war

Question 24

Vietnamization

Answer 24

Nixon’s plan to get the US out of the Vietnam War

Question 25

Kent State

Answer 25

1970 - National guardsmen fire into a crowd at Kent State and kill four students

Question 26

What happens in 1972

Answer 26

Nixon reelected: Kissinger arranges ceasefire to get US out of the war but South doesn't sign

Question 27

"Peace with honor"

Answer 27

Making it look like the US wasn't beaten by Vietnam

Question 28

NVA Guerrilla warfare

Answer 28

Jungles and tunnels: choose the opertune time to attack the enemy

Question 29

NVA Ground war

Answer 29

Low tech with material from USSR and China: controlled South civilians through terrorism, assassinations and kidnapping: used civilians to protect military bases and factories

Question 30

NVA propaganda

Answer 30

Had support of China and S. Vietnam: used US antiwar sentiment

Question 31

My Lai Massacre

Answer 31

1968: many civilians were killed and was covered up the government but the media found out

Question 32

Prague Spring

Answer 32

1968: Dubcek introduced social, political and cultural freedoms so USSR crushed the movement

Question 33

Brezhnev Doctrine

Answer 33

1968: trying to contain the breakdown of communism and justify the raid of Czechoslovakia: stated that every communist party was responsible for the whole movement and may not do something to threaten that movement

Question 34

Paris Peace Accords

Answer 34

1973: troops and POWs return home: South doesn't sign:

Question 35

Case-Church Amendment

Answer 35

1973: end to US involvement in Vietnam including financially

Question 36

War Powers Act

Answer 36

1973: limiting the president power: President can only deploy troops without notifying congress for 48 hours, must return troops home if congress doesn’t agree within 60 days

Question 37

1974

Answer 37

Nixon resigns because of watergate

Question 38

1975

Answer 38

Saigon falls

Question 39

Events of 1968

Answer 39

Tet Offensive, My Lai, Cultural Revolution in China, Prague Spring, Brezhnev Doctrine

Question 40

When did Brezhnev gain power? What else happened in this year?

Answer 40

1964: gulf of Tonkin