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Vietnam War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Vietnam also known as? | Indochina. |
| What countries had Foreign control, influence, and occupation of Vietnam. | China, France, and Japan. |
| What's Viet Minh? | Revolutionary group that wanted Vietnam’s independence. |
| What's Viet Cong? | Vietnamese Communist guerrillas, led by Ho Chi Minh. |
| What battle did The Viet Minh defeat the French at? | Dien Bien Phu. |
| Vietnam was divided into two countries at what parallel? | 17th parallel. |
| What type of government did North Vietnam have? | Communists. |
| What was the capital of North Vietnam? | Hanoi. |
| Who led North Vietnam? | Viet Minh & later Ho Chi Minh |
| Who supported North Vietnam? | China and the USSR. |
| What type of government did South Vietnam have? | A democratic government. |
| What was the capital of South Vietnam? | Saigon. |
| Who led South Vietnam? | Bao Dai & later Diem. |
| Who supported South Vietnam? | The US & Western democracies. |
| What two countries were formed at this time? | Countries of Laos and Cambodia formed at this time. |
| Why did the war break out? | Elections to reunite the country under one gov’t supposed to be held in 1956. When the elections were not held, war broke out. |
| Who is Bao Dai? | Emperor & puppet of the French (ineffective & failed). |
| Who's Diem? | Declared S. Vietnam a republic (nepotism). |
| Who's Ho Chi Minh? | Harsh Communist dictator. |
| What year did the Vietnam war begin and end? | (1957-1975) |
| What were Communist guerrillas called? | Viet Cong. |
| What villages did Viet Cong attack? | Villages in the South. |
| What did Vietcong want? | They wanted to unite as one communist country. |
| What country did U.S. President John F. Kennedy (JFK) sent 900 “advisors” to? | South Vietnam. |
| A military coup overthrew who? | Diem in the South. |
| What's Ho Chi Minh Trail? | The system of trails, running through Laos & Cambodia, that supplied the communists in the south. |
| What's The Gulf of Tonkin Incident? | U.S. President Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) claimed U.S. ships were attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin (possibly provoked, debatable, & never confirmed). As a result, Johnson increased U.S. involvement & ordered airstrikes against the North. |
| What year did the first U.S. ground combat forces (Marines) entered the war? | 1965. |
| What's Operation “Rolling Thunder”? | U.S. B-52 bombers made thousands of bombing raids on enemy bases. |
| What's the Tet offensive? | The communists’ attack on the South during the Vietnamese New Year celebration; made the war seem endless to Americans. |
| What were three American protests & anti-war demonstrations, marches, “sit-ins” | Kent State Burning of draft cards & draft dodgers “Hanoi Jane” |
| Why did President Johnson did not seek re-election? | American protests & anti-war demonstrations, marches, “sit-ins” and high war costs. |
| What's Vietnamization? | U.S. President Richard Nixon’s policy in 1969 to reduce U.S. involvement & increased training programs for S. Vietnamese troops. |
| What's Fall of Saigon? | Vietnam War ends, as S. Vietnamese surrender to the Communists on April 30, 1975; capital renamed Ho Chi Minh City. |
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