AS Level History: Vietnam

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President who ordered Operation Menu (secret bombing over Cambodia)
Richard Nixon
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Year in which US troops left Vietnam?
1973
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Leader of South Vietnam from 1963 til 1975
Thieu
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Major opponent to the war in Vietnam (float like a butterfly, sting like a bee)
Mohammad Ali
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Country in which the war was extended into via Operation Menu
Cambodia
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North Vietnamese Leader, died in 1969
Ho Chi Minh
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What was the purposeful killing of officers using grenades by US "grunts" called?
Fragging
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What president originally ignored the Geneva Protocols and gave aid to South Vietnam?
Dwight Eisenhower
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What battle decided the Franco-Vietminh War?
Dien Bien Phu
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In what year did the Tet Offensive occur?
1968
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What US president was killed in 1963?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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In what year did South Vietnam become united with North Vietnam?
1975
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What major Vietcong tactic meant that US bombing was useless?
Tunnels
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Name this US tactic where soldiers went out and destroyed suspected Vietcong hideouts, aka Zippo Raids
Search and Destroy
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What method of luring US support did the french attempt in 1949?
Bao Dai Experiment
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Year in which US troops left Vietnam?

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1973

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Leader of South Vietnam from 1963 til 1975

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Major opponent to the war in Vietnam (float like a butterfly, sting like a bee)

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Country in which the war was extended into via Operation Menu

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