History

Question 0

JFK started sending military personnel in…

Answer 0

1962 (11,500)

1964-23,000

Question 1

1961- diem officials killed by viet cong

Answer 1

4000

Question 2

Operation Rolling Thunder

Answer 2

President Johnson
7 February 1965
March 8 arrived
Ended 1972

Question 3

Strategic Hamlets programme

Answer 3

Since 1962

Moving peasants from viet cong areas to South Vietnam areas

Question 4

When was Vietnam divided into North and south?

Answer 4

1954

Question 5

Why did North Vietnam creat the Ho Chi Minh trail?

Answer 5

To move supplies to the south

Question 6

First Americans landed in…

Answer 6

Da nang

Question 7

Guerrilla warfare

Answer 7

Small groups
Limited weapons
Hard to tell apart from peasants
Aim was to wreck morale

Question 8

US Casualties

Answer 8

11% by booby trap

51% by small fire arms

Question 9

1966-1971 the viet cong killed

Answer 9

Approx. 27,000 civilians

Question 10

Total North Vietnamese/ Viet Cong killed

Answer 10

Estimated 1 million

Question 11

US and South Vietnam air rafts shot down…

Answer 11

14,000

Question 12

How much it cost to kill ONE viet cong

Answer 12

$400,000

Question 13

Chemical weapons

Answer 13

Agent orange- 82 million litres used
Wiped out 4 million acres of forests and farms
Affected 1.3 million people
Napalm- 20,000 tons between 1965-1973

Question 14

Desertion

Answer 14

500,000 incidents

Question 15

Age of most Americans killed

Answer 15

60% of the 56,000 killed were aged 17-21

Question 16

My Lai Massacre

Answer 16

1968
Killed nearly 400 civilians
Most women, children and old men

Question 17

Anti war protest

Answer 17

November 1969
Almost 700,000
Washington D.C

Question 18

Media (Vietnam)

Answer 18

Military Assistance Command, Vietnam

“What the hell is going on? I thought we were winning this war” - don oberdorfer

Question 19

Kent state university

Answer 19

1970
Open fire by national guard 
4 killed
11 injured
400 colleges closed because students went on strike

Question 20

Tet offensive

Answer 20

1968- Tet New Year holiday
V.C attacked over 100 cities
V.C lost 10,000
Hope S.V people would join V.C but didn’t

Question 21

Peace Agreement (Vietnam)

Answer 21

Paris, January 1973
Nixon, Le Duc Tho and S.V President Thieu

“1. Immediate cease-fire

2. Release of all prisoners within 60 days
3. Withdrawal of all US forces and bases
4. Full accounting of missing in action
5. Self determination for South Vietnam”

Question 22

Last US troops in Vietnam were out by…

Answer 22

29 march 1973

Question 23

South Vietnam fell….

Answer 23

April 1975

Question 24

Cold War dates

Answer 24

1945-1955

Question 25

Yalta conference

Answer 25

Germany divided into 4- American, French, British, soviet. Aim to keep peace after the war Big three joined United Nations Disagreed about Poland

Question 26

Potsdam conference

Answer 26

``` May 1945 In Berlin Stalin vs. Truman Stalin protected ussr from future attack Stalin demanded $10 billion from Germany ```

Question 27

Atomic bombs

Answer 27

Hiroshima- 6 august 1945 | Nagasaki- 9 august 1945

Question 28

Iron curtain

Answer 28

1946- Stalin "owed loyalty" by Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania Stalin used secret police like Hitler

Question 29

Truman doctrine

Answer 29

Containment policy Send money, equipment and advice to any country threatened by communism $17 billion over 4 years

Question 30

Berlin blockade

Answer 30

23 June 1948- May 1949 Cuts of supplies into West Berlin from west Germany US sent supplies every 30 seconds for 10 months Remained in the hands of the allies

Question 31

NATO

Answer 31

``` North Atlantic Treaty Organisation April 1949 Provide US with secure bases in Europe Avoid resistance from Stalin if they were to cross the Atlantic Guaranteed protection of US allies ```

Question 32

Arms race

Answer 32

1949- soviets had an atomic bomb Possibility if nuclear weapons hitting US cities "Threats were exaggerated rather than investigated"

Question 33

MAD

Answer 33

Mutually Assured Destruction 1961- superpowers had missiles pointed at each other USA had more Both had enough to destroy 1 blast would be greater that all explosives in ww2

Question 34

McCarthyism

Answer 34

Joseph McCarthy- republican senator Anti communist Crucibles methods Blacklists

Question 35

Marshall aid

Answer 35

Giving Greece and Turkey money | $17 billion

Question 36

Berlin Wall

Answer 36

13 august 1961 Split east and west Germany 27 October 1961 18 hour stand off at checkpoint Charlie

Question 37

Cuban missile crisis

Answer 37

October 1962 Aries photos showed missiles pointed at Cuba (off coast of Florida) Almost an outbreak of nuclear war

Question 38

Emmett Till

Answer 38

``` August 28 1955 Gouged out eye Crushed forehead 75 pound cotton gin fan to neck with barbed wire Shot in head .45 Tallahatchie river ```

Question 39

Martin Luther king junior

Answer 39

28 august 1963- I have a dream | Lincoln memorial in Washington

Question 40

Rosa Parks

Answer 40

December 1 1955- December 21 1956

Question 41

March on Washington

Answer 41

August 28 1963 200,000 blacks 50,000 whites

Question 42

Sit ins

Answer 42

Feb 1 1960 4 black college students 400 others sat in eventually Influenced by little rock students

Question 43

Little rock high school

Answer 43

September 23 1957 | 9 black students

Question 44

Freedom rides

Answer 44

``` May 14 1961 Case for desegregated bus stops Beaten on arrival in Birmingham Klansmen Police watched ```

Question 45

Desegregation of public schools

Answer 45

Brown vs. Board of education May 17 1954 Argued that segregation isn't safe for black students