Vietnam Quiz Review

1. Vietnam Quiz Review

2. The class is divided into two groups. The teacher takes turns giving each group a question. When the teacher gives a question to group A, all the students who think they know the answer stand up. Then, the students in group B get to decide which of the students in group A should answer the question. If the selected student can answer the question, that group gets as many points as the number of people who stood up If the student cannot answer the question, then group B gets to answer (any student in that group can answer) and group B will get the same number of points. Bluff

3. Who was Ho Chi Minh?

4. The leader of the Vietnamese uprising against the French and later the United States.

5. Who was Ngo Dinh Diem?

6. Vietnamese leader who was assassinated during a coup.

7. Who widened the war to include Cambodia and Laos in an effort to stop the Ho Chi Minh Trail?

8. William Westmoreland

9. Who is blamed for the escalation of the Vietnamese conflict?

10. Lyndon B Johnson

11. Who supported sending military advisors to assist South Vietnamese people fight for democracy?

12. John F. Kennedy

13. What happened at the Geneva Conference?

14. Vietnam was split at the 17th parallel

15. What “resolution” gave the President the power to send troops into a country to fight without a declaration of war from Congress?

16. Gulf of Tonkin resolution

17. What was the North Vietnamese supply route to South Vietnam called?

18. Ho Chi Minh Trail

19. What is escalation?

20. Raising the amount of weaponry in a conflict with the belief that doing so would result in a victory (for the U.S. in the case of Vietnam)

21. What was the Tet Offensive?

22. A desperation attack by the Viet Cong against the South Vietnamese and the U.S. forces. It was a desperation attack, and ultimately the communist forces lost a lot of troops, but American support for the war waned after the attack. It was the peak of the war in Vietnam.

23. What is Vietnamization?

24. Training and equipping Vietnamese soldiers to fight the Vietnam War so the U.S. could remove itself from the conflict

25. Operation Rolling Thunder started after which battle?

26. The Battle of Pleiku

27. What did many young men do to be awarded “deferment,” or temporary postponement of entering the military via the draft?

28. Joined the National Guard or went to college

29. What were nicknames for the North Vietnamese troops?

30. (1) Viet Cong, (2) VC, (3) Charlie

31. What was the My Lai Massacre?

32. An attack where U.S. Marines killed hundreds of civilians in South Vietnam. It was initially hidden from the public until it became public knowledge in November of 1969.

33. What weapon has been protested for its use in Vietnam?

34. Agent Orange

35. What is a Credibility Gap?

36. The American people’s distrust of statements made by the government.

37. What were some of the effects of the Vietnam War?

38. Destruction of Vietnamese agriculture, culture and landscape, 58,000 US casualties, 300,000 wounded troops, Immigration of thousands of Laotians and Cambodians to the United

39. The fall of what city signaled the end of the Vietnam War?

40. Saigon

41. What is the Domino Theory?

42. The belief that if one country falls to communism, the neighboring countries will fall to communism

43. What was the result of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu?

44. French Colonialism ended in Vietnam

45. What were aspects of Ho Chi Minh’s military doctrine?

46. Only fight American’s when victory was assured, fight in small units, force American troops to fight a guerrilla war

47. What was the result of the Pentagon Papers?

48. Americans found out that President Johnson had systematically lied to the American people and Congress about the Vietnam War.

49. What was the Paris Peace Accords?

50. The agreement that the Americans would cease-fire in Vietnam and withdraw troops.