Malayan Emergency
This communist group led the insurgency against British rule in Malaya
What is the Malayan Communist Party (MCP)?
This country invaded South Korea in June 1950.
What is North Korea?
This nationalist-communist leader headed the Viet Minh.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
This superpower supported South Vietnam to prevent the spread of communism.
What is the United States?
This Cambodian leader was overthrown in 1970, destabilizing the country.
Who is Prince Sihanouk?
This colonial power led the counterinsurgency effort during the Malayan Emergency.
What is Britain (the United Kingdom)?
This international organization led a coalition to defend South Korea.
What is the United Nations?
The Viet Minh fought against this colonial power during the First Indochina War.
What is France?
This theory suggested that if one country fell to communism, others would follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
This radical communist group seized power in Cambodia in 1975.
What is the Khmer Rouge?
This type of warfare, used heavily by the MCP, relies on ambushes and mobility rather than conventional battles.
What is guerrilla warfare?
This Asian country entered the war in support of North Korea in late 1950.
What is China?
This 1954 battle marked a decisive Viet Minh victory over French forces.
What is the Battle of Dien Bien Phu?
This guerrilla force operated in South Vietnam against U.S. and South Vietnamese forces.
What is the Viet Cong?
This leader headed the Khmer Rouge regime.
Who is Pol Pot?
The British used this strategy of relocating rural populations into fortified settlements to cut off guerrilla support.
What are “New Villages”?
The war ended with this type of agreement rather than a formal peace treaty.
What is an armistice?
This agreement temporarily divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel.
What is the Geneva Accords?
This 1968 offensive shocked the American public and shifted opinion on the war.
What is the Tet Offensive?
The Khmer Rouge attempted to create this type of society by abolishing cities and money.
What is an agrarian communist society?
The conflict ended in 1960 with this outcome for Malaya.
What is the defeat of the MCP and independence under a non-communist government?
This line, near the 38th parallel, still divides North and South Korea today.
What is the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)?
The Viet Minh’s primary goal was achieving this for Vietnam.
What is independence from foreign rule?
The war ended in 1975 with this major event in South Vietnam’s capital.
What is the fall of Saigon?
This neighboring country invaded Cambodia in 1978, ending Khmer Rouge rule.
What is Vietnam?