What Was the Vietnam War questions
What is it called when no armies or battles are fought during a time of conflict?
Cold War
Who controlled Vietnam in 1884?
France
What did Ho Chi Minh join in 1920?
French Communist Party
What happened in May of 1954?
French defeated and departed Vietnam
Who was the head of the United States forces in Vietnam at the end of 1964?
General William Westmoreland
Where was the international conference held to determine the future of Vietnam?
Geneva, Switzerland
What is the capital of Vietnam?
Hanoi
What was the capital of North Vietnam?
Hanoi
Who was the 1969 National Security Advisor?
Henry Kissinger
Who was a national hero in Vietnam?
Ho Chi Minh
Who was the president of North Vietnam?
Ho Chi Minh
What was the 1969 fight over?
"Hamburger Hill"
What did the Americans call the POW prison in Vietnam?
"Hanoi Hilton"
What was Ho Chi Minh's nickname?
"Uncle Ho"
What does Ho Chi Minh's name mean?
'he who enlightens'
How many military personnel were serving in South Vietnam by the end of 1963?
16,300
When did John F. Kennedy become president?
1961
When did Ho Chi Minh die?
1969
What was the religion of a majority of the people in South Vietnam?
Buddhists
What religion was Diem's family?
Catholic
What did President Lyndon B. Johnson pass in 1964?
Civil Rights Act
When was the agreement signed between the United States and North Vietnam?
January 27, 1973
Who lost World War II?
Japan
What happened three weeks after Diem was assassinated?
John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas
Who was the most famous POW?
John McCain
When was the election for a new government for a united Vietnam scheduled?
July 30, 1956
Who was the president after John F. Kennedy was assassinated?
Lyndon B. Johnson
What was the capital of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)?
Moscow
What happened on March 16, 1968?
My Lai Massacre
What fire bomb is nearly impossible to put out?
Napalm
Who were two communist countries?
Soviet Union and China
What is Vietnam's Lunar New Year called?
Tet
What were two of the world's superpowers after World War II?
United States and Soviet Union
What were the supporters of Ho Chi Minh that were not part of the Vietminh called?
Vietcong
What was the first televised war?
Vietnam War
What was Nixon's answer to the war?
Vietnamization
What did President Lyndon B. Johnson pass in 1965?
Voting Rights Act
What respected television anchor flew to Vietnam in 1968?
Walter Cronkite
What war almost killed John F. Kennedy?
World War II
How long did the fighting last?
almost eight weeks
How many American soldiers were killed in 1968?
almost seventeen thousand
How many soldiers were killed in 1969?
almost twelve thousand
What was the population of Vietnam during the war?
approximately forty-four million
What is the population of Vietnam today?
approximately ninety-six million
What happened to Diem and Nhu?
assassinated bodies were found inside an armored car
What happened to Diem's presidential palace in 1962?
bombed by own air force
How did twenty-five thousand Vietnamese people die?
build three hundred miles of railroad
What was one way a young man could legally 'dodge' the draft?
by attending college
What was Agent Orange?
chemical that destroyed the canopy of trees in the jungle
What was Agent Orange, the cancer-causing chemical, used to do?
destroyed the canopy of the trees in the jungle
Why did Vietnam stay split?
did not want Ho Chi Minh as their leader
What was it called when eighteen year old men were required to serve two years in the military?
draft
What does enlighten mean?
educate or make things clear
What did the French do when they ruled Vietnam?
encouraged the Vietnamese to use opium, which was heavily taxed; exported so much rice that the Vietnamese peasants did not have enough to eat; forced Vietnamese villagers to work on their railroad line
Why was the United States helping South Vietnam capture the hill?
enemy's main route for supplies
What is it called when men volunteer to serve in the military?
enlist
What did the North Vietnamese Army do to 2,800 Vietnamese civilians?
executed for being "enemies of the revolution"
How long was John McCain a POW?
five and a half years
What was a bad plan for the French?
flying troops and supplies in as needed
How many soldiers were fighting in the war by 1967?
half a million
What happened to John F. Kennedy's brother, Robert, in June of 1968?
he was shot and killed in Los Angeles
What did President Johnson announce in March of 1968?
he would not seek another term as president
What did France do to the Vietnamese people?
heavily taxed the poor
What happened to French protesters?
jailed or executed
What did many do to avoid serving in Vietnam?
left the country, went to Canada
What is a citadel?
like a fortress
What did the Vietcong have?
miles of secret tunnels
How many troops were sent to Vietnam in July of 1965?
one hundred thousand
What was a popular drug at the time?
opium
Why was Lieutenant Calley sentenced to life in prison?
ordering the massacre of the residents of the village of My Lai
What did President Jimmy Carter do on January 21, 1977?
pardoned all the men that avoided the draft
How could men avoid the draft in the 1860's?
pay men to take their place, $300
What were Communists?
people that believe in the common ownership of all businesses
Why did Lyndon B. Johnson not want the United States to lose a war?
political disaster
What type of men were eighty percent of those sent to Vietnam?
poor working class with no education
What did General Westmoreland's staff say in their daily press briefings?
provided inaccurate numbers for both enemy and American deaths
Which idea did Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam Memorial, fight against?
putting the statue of three soldiers on the top of the wall
What did the Vietnamese eat a lot of?
rice
How did one monk protest the way Buddhists were being treated under Diem?
set himself on fire on a main street in Saigon
How many demonstrators were arrested?
six hundred eighty three
What was Vietnamization?
slowly moving soldiers out of Vietnam
What was the decision of the international conference?
split into two nations
What was guerrilla warfare?
surprise is a weapon
Why was the French plan to fly planes into Dien Bien Phu a bad idea?
the Vietminh had cannons and anti aircraft guns in the mountains
What did the Vietcong do in Saigon during the Tet Offensive?
they blew a hole in the wall around the American embassy
Why did Buddhist monks start protests?
they were treated so badly
When did Jan Scruggs have the idea for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?
thinking about the friends from his army unit who had died in the war
How many United States forces were in Vietnam by the end of 1964?
twenty-three thousand
How old is sixty-one percent of the population?
under 35
Why did these Vietnamese people die?
underfed and overworked in the heat
What happened on April 4, 1968?
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr was assassinated
Who was the new president elected in November of 1968?
Richard Nixon
What was the capital of South Vietnam?
Saigon
Who sent the French equipment for the troops in 1950?
President Harry S. Truman
What were POW's?
Prisoners of War
Who rigged the election so that Diem would become president of the Republic of Vietnam?
Ngo Dinh Nhu
Who was the enemy?
North Vietnamese Army - NVA
What were the two nations?
North and South Vietnam
When did one hundred thousand demonstrators go to a rally at the Lincoln Memorial?
October of 1967
How did the United States become involved in the Vietnam War?
President Eisenhower sent military advisers to help out the French
