Decolonisation of Indochina
What conference in 1954 temporarily divided Vietnam along the 17th parallel?
What is the Geneva Conference?
Which city was the capital of North Vietnam after 1954?
What is Hanoi?
Which Cold War doctrine justified US support for countries resisting communism?
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Which leader declared Vietnam’s independence in 1945?
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
What trail system helped the Viet Minh move troops and supplies across borders?
What are the Ho Chi Minh Trails?
What was the name of Ho Chi Minh’s resistance movement formed in 1941?
What is the Viet Minh?
Which leader ruled South Vietnam until his assassination in 1963?
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem?
What theory suggested that if one country fell to communism, others would follow?
What is the Domino Theory?
Which American President approved Diem’s overthrow in 1963?
Who is John F. Kennedy?
What type of warfare was central to the Viet Minh’s success?
What is guerrilla warfare?
What battle in 1954 marked the end of French colonialism in Indochina?
What is the Battle of Dien Bien Phu?
What 1960 program was created in the South to isolate rural villagers from the Viet Cong?
What is the Strategic Hamlet Program?
Which US President first sent large numbers of military advisors to Vietnam?
Who is JFK?
Who became South Vietnam’s president after the chaos that followed Diem’s death?
Who is Nguyen Van Thieu?
What Cold War powers supported North and South Vietnam respectively?
Who are the USSR/China and the US?
Name one reason why the Geneva Accords were considered ineffective in securing long-term peace.
What is the failure to hold 1956 elections OR What is the refusal of the US to sign the Accords?
What reform program in North Vietnam led to mass executions and later a political apology from Ho Chi Minh?
What are the Agricultural Reform Tribunals (ARTs)?
What 1962 operation saw the US Air Force using chemical defoliants in Veitnam?
What is Operation Ranchhand?
Which general led the Viet Minh to victory at Dien Bien Phu?
Who is Vo Nguyen Giap?
What US tactic involved searching villages for Viet Cong and burning them down?
What are Search and Destroy missions?
What treaty forced the Vietnamese Emperor to cede southern provinces, including Saigon, to the French in 1862?
What is the Treaty of Saigon?
Name one social or religious group that opposed Diem’s regime.
What is the Buddhists OR the Cao Dai OR the Hoa Hao?
What was the name of the anti-Diem document written by Vietnamese elites in 1960?
What is the Caravelle Manifesto?
Who authored the influential “Long Telegram” that shaped US containment policy?
Who is George Kennan?
What was the name of the Communist insurgent group in South Vietnam?
What is the National Liberation Front OR the Viet Cong?