Vietnam

Question 1

When did the vietnam war start and end?

Answer 1

54-75

Question 2

Which city was controlled by VC for 3 weeks following Tet?

Answer 2

Hue, former imperial Vietnamese capital

Question 3

What did Johnson do on the 31st of March 1969?

Answer 3

Announced he was “taking the first steps to deescalating the conflict” on a nationally televised speech

Question 4

What was the capital of SV?

Answer 4

Saigon

Question 5

How many polled citizens supported the war in 1967?

Answer 5

Less than 50%

Question 6

Who were the National Liberation Front?

Answer 6

Political part of Viet Cong

Question 7

Why did the USA intervene?

Answer 7

Domino Theory + Containment
Unpopularity of Diem’s regime in SV
Gulf of Tonkin attack

Question 8

What was JFK’s involvement in Vietnam?

Answer 8

1961: increased military advisers in SV to 11,000

Allowed assassination of Diem who became too corrupt

Question 9

What was the line that divided North and South Vietnam called?

Answer 9

17th parallel, it was established at the Geneva conference

17’ latitude

Question 10

What were the Guerrilla tactics?

Answer 10

51% of casualties = hiding in jungles and ambushing patrols
Booby traps (11% of casualties)
Relying on villagers for food and support with weapons
Tunnels

Question 11

Why didn’t superior fire power benefit the USA?

Answer 11

VC were in enclosed jungle

Question 12

What were Strategic Hamlet?

Answer 12

Moving whole villagers behind barbed wire,
Monitored movement in and out,
But villagers didn’t want to leave their roots

Question 13

What were new US tactics?

Answer 13

Strategic Hamlets,
Agent Orange and Napalm Strikes,
Search and Destroy,
Operation Rolling Thunder

Question 14

What was the impact of My Lai?

Answer 14

Shocked Americans at home,

Convinced them it was wrong

Question 15

Tet Offensive impacts?

Answer 15

Showed US NV and VC were strong,

Convinced Johnson war could not be won

Question 16

What was NVs capital called?

Answer 16

Hanoi

Question 17

What was the My Lai massacre?

Answer 17

March 1968,
Us unit massacred 300-400 civilians,
12 months later congress investigation,
Finds only Lt William Calley guilty and imprisons him

Question 18

What was the expense of the war?

Answer 18

1968 war was costing $30 billion per anum (tax payers money)
$400,000 per VC killed by Rolling Thunder,
Total American deaths = 58,202
61%

Question 19

What happened at Kent Stare University?

Answer 19

3000 students gathered to protest,
National Gaurdsmen used tear gas to disperse crowds,
4 students died, 2 weren’t protesting

Question 20

Where did the VC get their weapons from?

Answer 20

Government in NV (supplied by China and USSR)

1963, VC controlled 60% SV countryside

Question 21

Why were the US unpopular with SV?

Answer 21

Killed civilians,
Over 1.3 million affected by AO and Napalm,
Strategic Hamlets

Question 22

When was the Gulf of Tonkin?

Answer 22

August 2nd 1964

Question 23

What caused protests in America?

Answer 23

Full media coverage of Tet, My Lai and Napalm victims,
Rising levels of US deaths: 300 a week,
Many burnt draft cards and shouted anti-war slogans

Question 24

What was the order of Presidents?

Answer 24

Roosevelt (33-45)
Truman (45-53)
Eisenhower (53-61)
Kennedy (61-63)
Johnson (63-69)
Nixon (69-74)

Question 25

What was the Tet offensive?

Answer 25

January 1968, Tet holiday assumption no military action would be taken,
VC took over 100 cities and military bases in SV,
Took US many days to take back

Question 26

How many Vietnamese were killed by the US?

Answer 26

300,000 innocent SV

900,000 NV + VC

Question 27

When did the last US military unit leave Vietnam?

Answer 27

29th March 1973

Question 28

When was the Gulf of Tonkin resolution passed?

Answer 28

August 7th 1964

Question 29

When was My Lai publicised?

Answer 29

End of 1969