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100
This was the year of the Geneva Conference?
What happened in 1954
100
He was the military commander of the Viet Minh?
Who was General Vo Nguyen Giap?
100
Also known as 55 days of hell, this battle signified the end of the first Indochina war
What was Dien Bien Phu?
100
This quote symbolised the war between USA and the Viet Cong.
What does the war of the elephant and the flea refer to?
100
WHAMO
What was the accroymn for Winning the Hearts and Minds of the people?
200
This is when the National Liberation Front was formed?
What happened in December 1960?
200
He was the currupt unpopular leader of South Vietnam?
Who was Ngo Dinh Diem?
200
This happened in June 1976.
When did the re-unification of Vietnam occur?
200
Ho Chi Minh used this quote to describe how important the Vietnamese people were to the Vietnamese army.
What does "the army are the fish and the people are the sea" mean?
200
This was the type of defoilant used in Vietnam to destroy the vegetation.
What was Agent Orange?
300
This is when Ho declared Vietnam a Democratic Republic.
What happened in August 1945?
300
He was the first American president involved in Vietnam and believed in the Domino theory.
Who was Dwight Eisenhower?
300
This is when the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army achieved complete victory over the ARVN.
What was the Fall of Saigon?
300
This quote was referring to the Tonkon Gulf Resolution, that it gave US President legal powers to use all force neccessary in Vietnam.
What was the quote "like grandma nightshirt referring to?
300
$5 890 million compared to $107.8 billion
How much did the North Vietnamese spend on the war compared to the Americans?
400
This when Kennedy decided to send in military support and 'advisors' to Vietnam
What happened in 1961?
400
He was President of South Vietnam from 1967 to the fall of Saigon in 1975?
Who was Nguyen Van Thieu?
400
Commonly referred to as Pol Pot's agrian revolution where the Khmer Rouge forced everyone out of the cities in Cambodia.
What was year zero?
400
This quote referred to the political instability in South Vietnam following Diem assasination and the mulpitude of successive governments.
What did the quote 'if Mickey Mouse took power in Saigon, no one would have noticed' refer to?
400
57,000
How many American fatalities in the Vietnam War?
500
This is when Nixon announced the policy of Vietnamization.
What happened in June 1969?
500
Ngo Dinh Nhu and Madame Nhu
Who were Diem's brother and sister-in-law?
500
This is when President Johnson stunned America by announcing he wouldn't stand for re-election.
What happened on the 31st March 1968?
500
This is what President Nixon claimed when he came to power in Novermber 1968.
Who said they would not be the first President of the United State to lose a war?
500
$400,000.
By the late 1960s, how much money was the USA spending for every Viet Cong killed?