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Quiz 2 - Conflict in Indochina

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Select the correct order of US Presidents.

a)

JFK, Eisenhower, LBJ, Nixon

b)

Nixon, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ

c)

Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon

d)

Nixon, LBJ, JFK, Eisenhower

2.

What does the term escalation mean?

a)

moving staircase used as transportation between floors or levels in subways, buildings, and other mass pedestrian areas.

b)

an increase in the intensity or seriousness of something; an intensification.

c)

a sudden powerful forward or upward movement, especially by a crowd or by a natural force such as the tide.

d)

(of an emotion or feeling) affect someone powerfully and suddenly.

3.

What year did the Second Indochinese War begin?

a)

1954

b)

1968

c)

1964

d)

1972

4.

Which part of Vietnam is the RVN?

a)

North

b)

South

5.

Which part of Vietnam is the DRV?

a)

North

b)

South

6.

What is celebrated during Tet?

a)

Lunar New Year

b)

Christmas

c)

Chinese New Year

d)

Easter

7.

Both the United States and China continued to increase their financial and military support to areas of Vietnam during the Second Indochinese War?

a)

True

b)

False

8.

According to US Assistant Secretary of Defense John T McNaughton, what percentage of US aims was concerned with avoiding international humiliation.

a)

20%

b)

35%

c)

60%

d)

70%

9.

Which army was concerned with winning over the 'hearts and minds' of the Vietnamese people?

a)

Viet Cong

b)

US-ARVN

c)

NVA

10.

General Westmoreland believed the war would be won through a War of...

(a)  

11.

Which army utilised tunnel systems that ran throughout Vietnam's underground?

a)

NVA-NLF (Viet Cong)

b)

US-ARVN

12.

Tick the chemical weapons that were utilised by the US-ARVN in Vietnam

a)

Mustard Gas

b)

Agent Orange

c)

Phosgene

d)

Napalm

13.

What was the name of the most common and versatile helicopter used throughout The Vietnam War?

a)

Tarhe Sky Cranes

b)

Kiowas

c)

Huey

d)

Chinooks

14.

Which activities would come under the US military tactic of Pacification?

a)

Rehousing half a million Vietnamese refugees

b)

Setting up medical clinics and schools

c)

Reeducating people who had left the Viet Cong

d)

Building roads, bridges and canals

15.

What was the name of the two US universities in which protests turned into shootings, resulting in the deaths of students?

a)

Kent University

b)

New York State University

c)

University of Michigan

d)

Jackson State University