Discovery Education
Vietnam War- one video clip
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Video: AMERICAN HISTORY: MARCHING INTO THE FUTURE
Video Segment: Causes of the Vietnam War
1. How many Americans were killed in the Vietnam War?
2. What did the war do to the American public?
3. When did the U.S. enter into the war on a “large scale”?
4. When did U.S. involvement in Vietnam begin?
5. What did the U.S. give to the group called the Vietminh? Why?
6. Who was the leader of the Vietminh? What country did he admire?
7. What area of Vietnam did the Vietminh take control of from the Japanese?
8. When did Japan pull its troops out of Vietnam?
9. What country had ruled Vietnam before the Japanese?
10. What did Ho want to do in regards to the French?
11. What did Ho declare at the end of WWII?
12. Who was the American President after WWII?
13. What did France want to do in S.E. Asia?
14. Did President Truman respond to Ho’s letters for help against the French?
15. Which communist countries did Ho Chi Minh turn to for help fighting the French
when America would not help?
16. Back in Vietnam, what group was fighting against the French (1st Indochina
War)?
17. Why did America pledge military and economic support to the French?
18. Who became the President in 1953?
19. What was the Dominos Theory?
20. Who won the war (1st Indo China War)?
21. Where was Vietnam divided by the international agreement (Geneva Accords)?
22. Who controlled the Northern part of Vietnam?
23. Who held the southern half?
24. Why was there to be an election in Vietnam?
25. Who was believed to win the election?
26. Did this election every happen?
27. What did the U.S. do for the South Vietnamese leader President Ngo Dinh Diem?
28. Did all of the people in S. Vietnam support President Diem?
29. Communist living in S. Vietnam formed the group the Nationalist Liberation
Front (Vietcong). What did this group fight to do?
30. Who was elected President of the U.S. in 1960?
31. What did the new President send to Vietnam?
32. Who did President Diem of S. Vietnam crack down on?
33. What did the U.S. back in regards to the unpopular President Diem in Vietnam?
34. What happened three weeks later in the U.S.?
35. Who was inaugurated as the new U.S. President?
36. Did LBJ believe in the threat of the Domino Theory?
37. Was the next President of South Vietnam a strong leader, supported by the
people?
38. In 1964, the USS Maddox was patrolling what body of water?
39. Was it believed that the North Vietnamese attacked the USS Maddox?
40. What did LBJ order in North Vietnam?
41. What did the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution state?
42. What did the resolution allow LBJ to do?
43. Where things going well at this point for the U.S. in the war?
44. What did President Johnson’s advisors encourage him to do?
45. What was the name of the air campaign in North Vietnam?
46. Did the intensive bombing bring the North to a peace talk?
47. What did President Johnson do as the Vietcong and Vietminh continued their
attacks?
48. How many American troops were in Vietnam by the end of 1965?