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Vietnam War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did Title IX do/provide for? | This bans sex discrimination in higher education. |
| What were the Paris Peace Talks? | Talks with North Vietnam that led to an agreement by the Nixon administration to withdraw all U.S. troops from Vietnam in 1917. |
| What effect did the expanded bombing that President Nixon authorized from 1969 to December, 1972 have on the North Vietnamese military effectiveness? | The expanded bombing did nothing to break the will of the North Vietnamese leadership, though damage and civilian casualties were high. |
| What does the term "fragging" mean/ refer to? | Sometimes lethal attacks on officers by enlisted men. |
| What tragedy happened at Kent State University in May, 1970? | Four protesting students were filled. |
| When did the cease - fire for the Vietnam War take place? | January 27, 1973 |
| What were the SALT I and ABM treaties? | Major treaties negotiated with the SOviet Union to reduce the world’s supply of nuclear weapons. |
| What does the term "New Economic Policy" mean/ refer to? | A policy that ended the decades-long plan in which all other currencies would be based on the U.S. dollar |
| Why did the U.S. spray defoliants? | To deny Communist forces food and jungle hiding places. |
| What percent of all sorties (“combat flights”) were flown in South Vietnam? | 75% |
| What were “Arc Light” missions? | 6, B-52’s that carpet bombed free fire zones, blanketing miles of countryside with 100’s of bombs. |
| Why were the people of South Vietnam angry about bombing missions that the U.S. conducted? | Because their land was being bombed by the very people who claimed to be protecting them from external Communist aggression. |
| What type of aircraft did Lun Huy Chao fly? | Mig-17 |
| What 3 types of aircraft did the U.S. fly according to Chao? | F-4, F-8, F-105. |
| Why was Chao “confident” about being shot down? | If he was shot down, he would be landing in his own country. |
| Why does he say that pilots from neither side should be sorry they shot down enemy jets? | Because that’s what they had to do; it was their orders. |
| What did George Jacobson tell Zorthia was going on at the U.S. embassy once he finally got ahold of him? | That VC commando infiltrators had penetrated his house and he could hear people downstairs. There was shouting outside his side of the compound. |
| What had General Westmoreland said about the Vietnam War in November 1967 (just before the Tet Offensive)? | That the beginning of the end of the war was in sight. |
| Was General Westmoreland aware that something might happen during the Tet holiday? | Yes |
| What is 1 example of corruption that Zorthian mentions? | Senior government officials and generals were involved in the drug trade. Wives of Vietnamese officials “used their power behind the scenes to enrich themselves”. |
| How, according to Zorthian, were the North Vietnamese eventually able to force the U.S. to withdraw? | By inflicting huge casualties on U.S. forces and devastating the South Vietnamese forces. |
| How did high school students learn that a former classmate had been killed in Vietnam? | They announced it over the PA system. |
| What happened to Dougan’s friend Greg Fishcher? | He was killed in Vietnam at Dong Ha near the DMZ. |
| What does Dougan say is the “only tribute you could pay” to friends who died in Vietnam? | To visit their grave and pay respects. |
| What happened after Marshall sent a letter to his family telling them that he had been discharged from the military for being a “conscientious objector”? | His father didn’t talk to him for a year and his grandfather wrote him a letter and disowned him. |
| Why was it a “mixed blessing” to get a letter from your loved one who was serving in the North Vietnamese army? | Because it took so long to get the letter that getting one didn’t mean necessarily that they were still alive. |
| How long was Huynh Phuong Dong away from her husband before they saw each other again? How long before he saw their children again? | A: 10 years. 13 years. |
| In the introduction for this story, what does it say that Colburn did during the My Lai Massacre? | Helped stop some of the killing by landing his helicopter in the middle of the massacre to protect a group of villagers from G.I.’s. |
| What did Colburn witness Capt. Medina do to a girl who was wounded and lying in the grass? | He witnessed Medina abuse and then murder her. |
| What happened when they flew over a ditch “where more than a hundred Vietnamese had been killed?” | They saw movement, so they landed and Andreotta rescued a young boy from the ditch and took him to an orphanage. |
| What is the “Domino Theory”? | The idea that if one country in Southeast Asia “fell” to Communism, the others in the region would also “fall like dominos” and become Communist. |
| What did Ngo Vinh Long’s father tell him about race relations in the U.S.? Was it true? | He said that the U.S. was “racially harmonious” and beautiful. This was not true; there was a lot of inequality, discrimination, & segregation between whites and African Americans in the U.S. at this time. |
| What is 1 example of privilege and/or inequality Long experienced? | He is given free Coca-Cola at the Sportif; when he got to America, people made fun of him because he had never had a car. (There are other examples, too.) |
| What does the term “Viet Cong” mean/ refer to? | “Vietnamese Communist”. |
| What does “NLF” stand for? | National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. |
| What did President Kennedy think about “Communist victory in South Vietnam”? | It was an intolerable prospect, a blow to American power and prestige that would almost certainly lead to further Communist victories throughout Southeast Asia”. |
| Who really were the “advisers” that were sent to Vietnam while President Kennedy was in office? | They were really fighter pilots, helicopter pilots, Special Forces teams, and regular Army officers and enlisted men. |
| What does the acronym “ARVN” stand for? | Army of the Republic of Vietnam. |
| What did Olsen say about the South Vietnamese army while he was there as a pilot in 1962? | He said that they were “soft” compared to the Viet Cong; they took a nap from noon until 3 PM everyday. They were scared and tried to get on his helicopter to leave combat zones. |
| What did the Soviet Union send to help Vietnam? | Cruise missiles. |
| How did “Soviet propaganda” present the Vietnam War? | As an example of American imperialists battling against brave freedom fighters. |
| What kinds of jobs did the Volunteer Youth Corps do? | Cut down trees, cleared and leveled trails, filled in bomb craters, defused unexploded bombs. |
| What was 1 thing that members ate? | Crabs, fungus and moss, ginseng tea. |
| What, according to Hegelheimer, did most soldiers on the way to Vietnam do during the “1st leg” of the flight? | Wrote letters or bragged. |
| What was the difference between the ‘top of the ramp and the bottom’ once they arrived in Vietnam? | The top of the ramp was the rest of the world and safety, the bottom was the war. |
| How does Hegelheimer describe the flights home from Vietnam when they had veterans onboard who had finished their tour of duty? | She says that it was very quiet and that some reached across the aisle and shook hands. |
| How did the veterans look on the way home compared to when they were first arriving? | They had lost their youth - it was gone; there was a different look in their eyes. |
| What did Rostow say had to be done in order to win the Vietnam Wa | Cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail. |
| Why did President Johnson reject Rostow’s idea to “take the Vietnamese city of Vinh hostage”? | “He felt the rules of engagement should remain: Americans should not cross the South Vietnamese border on the ground.” |
| What did Dr. Dai use for a scalpel when there wasn’t one available? | He used scrap metal from unexploded bombs, shell casings or pieces of aluminum from planes that had been shot down. |
| What were 70% of his patients suffering from? | Noncombat - related diseases like malaria. |
| What kinds of weapons caused the most combat injuries? | Small fragments from cluster bombs and a wide variety of land mines. |
| What was their “soil, water, and food” contaminated with during the war? | Dioxin |
| What do triage officers do? | Separate out casualties to determine what needed to be done first, in what order of priority. |
| What did he say he saw Marines doing before missions? | Reading comic books. |
| Why did wounded soldiers survive “if you got them stabilized”? | They were in perfect physical shape. |
| What did he see an elderly Vietnamese man doing when he was “walking down the street in Danang” one day? | Making flower vases out of spent 105 mm Howitzer shells. |
| What does “Vietnamization” mean/ refer to? | the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam. |
| Why did President Nixon escalate the war in 1970? | Because Cambodia was a protected sanctuary for Communist troops. |
| What does COSVN stand for? | Central Office for South Vietnam. |
| Why, according to Langguth, “weren’t the South Vietnamese (ARVN) up to the job”? | They didn’t have what they needed to win battles. |
| Why were ARVN soldiers looting while they were in Cambodia? | Because they only got paid 6,000 piasters. |
| Why did most VC escape during their (ARVN’s) “one major battle during the Cambodian invasion”? | The ARVN did not pursue the enemy after making contact. |
| Why was the North Vietnamese Army able to win the Vietnam War according to Tran? | Because the North was able to mobilize southerners as well as northerners to fight what they called the “American invasion”. |
| What happened to Tran’s family when the U.S. sprayed defoliants? | It killed his grandpa’s coconut plantation, their only source of income. |
| Why did Tran’s commander wait until 1 or 2 am to send them out on ambushes? | That was when the guerillas (Communist VC soldiers) went to villages to get supplies. |
| Why, according to Tran, did having U.S. soldiers in Vietnam “destroy (their) economy and social fabric”? | 90% of the population had relied on land but people couldn’t grow crops during the war, so they moved to cities. |
| What does Tran Van Ban say they did whenever they found Americans who had been killed? | They buried them properly. |
| Why did he say they did this? | Because they realized American parents grieved for their children and now they want to heal wounds. |
| Why are burial sites hard to locate according to Tran? | Tanks flattened markers they left and the sites have been heavily bombed. |
| What did Tom Corey ask members of the VVA to do once they got back from their trip to Vietnam in 1993? | To turn over any personal items taken from Vietnamese bodies and to give info./maps showing locations of grave sites. |
| Why do some Americans believe their family member is being held captive even though the remains are returned? | They say that the Vietnamese lied about not torturing American POW’s they can’t be trusted about the identity of the remains. |
| Why was Tom Corey angry when he watched people protesting the war on TV? | Because he had friends who were still fighting. |
| What happened to the other 2 veterans who had spinal cord injuries that he shared a room with at the Memphis VA Hospital? | They committed suicide. |
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