5. What does this work out to for every man, woman, and child in Vietnam? 6. What was the average age of the Americans killed in Vietnam?

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1 1. How long was the Vietnam War? 2. Was the war ever officially declared? 3. What was the total cost of the war? 4. How man tons of bombs did the U.S. drop? 5. What does this work out to for every man, woman, and child in Vietnam? 6. What was the average age of the Americans killed in Vietnam? 7. How many Americans were killed in the war? 8. How many people served in Vietnam? 9. How many North Vietnamese were killed? 10. How many causalities did they have? 11. How many days did the typical infantryman in World War II see of combat in four years? 12. How many days of combat did the typical Vietnam infantryman see of combat in one year? 13. What made this possible? 14. Was the American Military defeated in Vietnam? 15. Who lost the war? 16. Why did they lose? 17. When did Saigon fall? 18. When did the last American troops depart? 19. What did the peace settlement signed in Paris on January 1973 call for? 1

2 20. How many people were evacuated in April 1975? 21. What did these people consist of? 22. What could be said about the domino theory? 23. What Asian countries remained free due to the domino theory? 24. What happened in 1966? 25. In these countries what is the Vietnam war seen as? 26. What did atrocities by US soldier lead to? 27. Why were communist atrocities not covered more? 28. What happened to Americans that deliberately killed civilians? 29. What did the Communist receive? 30. Between 1957 and 1971 how many people did the NLF assassinate? 31. How did their death squads focus on? 32. Who ruled most of Indochina from the late 1800s until WW2? 33. What did the French Colonist do? 34. How did the French rulers react to the growing unrest of the Vietnamese peasants? 35. Did these methods work? 36. What did Ho Chi Minh help create in the 1930s? 37. What did he continue to orchestrate from China? 38. What happened in the 1940s? 39. What did Ho help to form? 2

3 40. What was the Viet Minh s goal? 41. What happened on Sept. 2, 1945? 42. What was the problem with this? 43. How much did the US give to France in 1950? 44. Over the next four years how much did the US give to the French to fight the communist in Vietnam? 45. What is the irony of the war against Ho? 46. In the domino theory what did Eisenhower countries on the brink of communism to? 47. Despite massive US aide what happened in 1954? 48. In the 1954 Geneva accord where was Vietnam temporarily divided at? 49. Who controlled the north? 50. Who controlled the south? 51. What was supposed to happen in 1956? 52. How did Ho Cho Minh win popularity? 53. What did the French think of Diem? 54. Why was Diem eventually chosen? 55. The Americans discovered about Diem? 56. What did Ngo Dinh Diem develop a reputation of? 57. In 1955 what did he use the ARVN troops to do? 58. Why did Diem cancel the 1956 election? 3

4 59. In a short amount of time how many people did he have in prison? 60. Who were his main targets? 61. What did the Strategic Hamlet Program do? 62. What was the idea? 63. What did Diem force many of these peasants to do? 64. What did Diem s measures do? 65. Why did the Viet Minh leaders in the north hold back southern forces from revolting? 66. What did the Law 10/59 establish? 67. Since the NLF were not in a position to take on the South Vietnamese Army what did the concentrate on? 68. How many government officials were murdered by the NLF in 1959? 69. What was the Caravelle Manifesto? 70. What was formed in 1960? 71. What did the NLF being a program to do? 72. What term became interchangeable with the term NLF? 73. In a series of government White Pages what did they denounce the NLF as? 74. What is Viet Cong a slang term for? 75. On the other hand, what did they argue about the NLF? 76. What did the December 1961 White Paper argue for? 77. What things did Kennedy determine to do? 4

5 78. Why was Diem s government unpopular? 79. What percent of Vietnamese were Catholic? 80. What did Diem s government engage in? 81. Who was Ngo Dinh Thuc? 82. Who was Ngo Dinh Nhu? 83. Who was Madame Nhu and what was she influential? 84. What were the characteristics of Madame Nhu? 85. During French colonial rule what Catholics always hold? 86. Who was the largest land owner in Vietnam? 87. What percent of Vietnam was Buddhist? 88. What did the French see the Buddhists as and do to discourage its growth? 89. Who did Diem tend to appoint to positions of authority? 90. What happened on May 8, 1963? 91. What did the Buddhist begin a series of? 92. In an attempt to let the world know, what did they ask for? 93. What did the monk Thich Quang Due do on June 11, 1963? 94. As the monk burned what did other monks and nuns do? 95. What was the government s response to the suicide? 96. What did one member of the Government tell reporters about the suicide? 97. What could be said of the Ngo family? 5

6 98. What things could be said of Diem s regime? 99. What group was he popular with and where did he have some influence? 100. Where was he universally hated in? 101. Under Diem what happened to the number of Communists? 102. In 1963 what did Kennedy s ambassador Lodge tell Diem to do? 103. Did he go along with this? 104. Looking at Diem s actions and refusal to reform, what did this convince the president about Diem? 105. What did the US provide to Vietnamese Generals for a coup? 106. What did the US promise to do? 107. What happened in November 1963? 108. What eventually happen to Diem? 109. Who replaced Diem? 110. What happened to President Kennedy three weeks after Diem s assassination? 6