Vietnam

Question 1

How did Ho Chi Minh come to power

Answer 1

Japan overran indochina and started vietnam but he stopped him

Question 2

What happened after japan tried to overrun and failed vietnam

Answer 2

french started a war trying to get it back and failed at dien bien phu

Question 3

when/Where was Vietnam split

Answer 3

1954 at the Geneva Conference Vietnam was divided at the 17th parallel into two separate countries

Question 4

Who was the leader of south vietnam

Answer 4

Ngo Dinh Diem

Question 5

What was Americas involvement pre war in vietnam

Answer 5

sent 1 bil over the course of a decade

Question 6

Why did Johnson go to war

Answer 6

Wanted to get reelected

Question 7

What led to US involvement in Vietnam

Answer 7

1964 2 US destroyers were attacked off the gulf of ton kin in north Vietnam by torpedoes

Question 8

What allowed US involement

Answer 8

congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Question 9

What was the event chain that led to conflict

Answer 9

• We shot their gun boats out
• They infiltrate airbase in south Vietnam
• They got plaiku
• Operation Rolling Thunder

Question 10

Operation Rolling Thunder

Answer 10

• bomb them into the stone age
• threat should have worked
• primarily air power
• 7 million tons of bombs

Question 11

agent orange

Answer 11

• Very bad
• herbicides
• kill off large swaths of the jungle

Question 12

Napalm

Answer 12

sticks and burns everything it hits

Question 13

First combat troops in nam

Answer 13

arrived in Danang in march 1965

Question 14

first conventional battle of Vienam

Answer 14

• in November 1965
  
  • la drang valley
  • US air calvary defeated NVA and VC forced

Question 15

Who where the US troops led by

Answer 15

Hal Moore

Question 16

When was the first use of Helicopters

Answer 16

La Drang

Question 17

When did all the soliders come

Answer 17

1965-1967

Question 18

General William Westmoreland

Answer 18

senior commander of American troops in Vietnam

Question 19

What was the plan for defeating the north

Answer 19

bomb and kill so many of them they lose there motivation

Question 20

Turning point of the war

Answer 20

Tet offensive

Question 21

Tet offensive

Answer 21

• NVA and VC began a major offensive
• shift from jungle to south Vietnamese urban area

Question 22

Largest Battle of Vietnam

Answer 22

large battle occured at an american base at Khe Sanh

Question 23

hue

Answer 23

NVA VC overran and freed thousands; shot enemys of the state; recaptued monthes after

Question 24

Khe Sanh

Answer 24

• siege at Khe Sanh and it lasted from January until April
• we won

Question 25

Who won Tet Offensive

Answer 25

Both thought they lost; Millitary failure for NVA but moral failure for America

Question 26

Ho Chi Minh Trail

Answer 26

crossed other countries in order to get supplies back and forth

Question 27

What was difficult about fighting vietcong

Answer 27

couldnt tell who was bad or not in the towns

Question 28

how did TV affect Vietnam

Answer 28

Worsened public opinion; Police Cheif in sygon kills man on live television

Question 29

Where did protest start

Answer 29

College campuses

Question 30

SDS

Answer 30

student democratic society

Question 31

SDS goal

Answer 31

didnt want to go to vietnam but wanted poor kids to go

Question 32

Port Huron Statement

Answer 32

called for power to be rooted in love reflections reason and creativity

Question 33

Weathermen

Answer 33

Violent activist against vietnam

Question 34

1968 Democratic National Convention

Answer 34

Seven men were arrested and charged with conspiracy to incite a riot; Chicago 7

Question 35

What started a new wave of protest

Answer 35

said we were going to invade cambodia

Question 36

What happened at Kent state for vietnam protest

Answer 36

May 1970 burned the ROTC killed 4

Question 37

Jane Fonda

Answer 37

Hated; Hanoi Jane

Question 38

Who fought against Ho chi minh trail

Answer 38

General Abrams; wanted to interdict to the trail

Question 39

What was Americas final plan for Vietnam war

Answer 39

build up south forces to replace amrican troops

Question 40

What ended the vietnam conflict

Answer 40

Jan 1973 Formal Agreement signed in Paris

Question 41

Jan 1973 Formal Agreement signed in Paris statement

Answer 41

- US would withdraw - prisoners released

Question 42

What was the result of formal agreement in paris

Answer 42

Took Vietnam 2 years to regroup and take over south

Question 43

Legacy of vietnam war

Answer 43

Legacy is over 50,000 killed

Question 44

What did congress do post vietnam war

Answer 44

War powers act

Question 45

What was War powers act

Answer 45

- congress realized there was a mistake with letting gulf of tonkin - passed so no president could do what lbj did - limited to do what hostilites come

Question 46

What were the three things that congress restricted you to do if you wanted to go to war

Answer 46

- deceleration of war - specific statutory authorization from congress - respond from a national emergency

Question 47

Who replaced westmooreland

Answer 47

Gen. Creighton Abrms after Tet

Question 48

What countires did the Ho chi minh trail have

Answer 48

Cambodia, Laos