Chapter 11 - Cold War

Question 1

2 features of the land reforms implemented by Ho Chi Minh?

Answer 1

seized private land redistributed amongst rural farmers
public denunciation of landowners and landlords

Question 2

3 negative consequences of Ho Chi Minh’s land reforms?

Answer 2

Thousands were executed
People put in labour camps
military had to put down a revolt with 6000 killed in action

Question 3

What decision was taken in 1958 at the Fifteenth Plenum of the VWP Central Committee meeting?

Answer 3

commit to a strategy that would reunify Vietnam

Question 4

How did North Vietnam attempt to destabilize the South before 1960?

Answer 4

by supporting anti-Diem groups in the south

Question 5

Who, why and when was the NLF set up?

Answer 5

December 1960 - Nguyen Van Hien - to free south Vietnam from American imperialism

Question 6

Why was the NLF presented as a resistance group in the south?

Answer 6

So it didn’t break the agreements of the Geneva convention

Question 7

3 examples of the connection between the NLF and North Vietnam?

Answer 7

Supplied through the Ho Chi Minh trail
orders were coming through Hanoi
political focus of eradicating imperialism linked to the North

Question 8

What is nepotism?

Answer 8

Favoritism to family members

Question 9

What was Diem seen as by Eisenhower?

Answer 9

‘The miracle man of Asia’

Question 10

Which two US foreign policy ideas was Kennedy committed to?

Answer 10

strategy of flexible response/ domino theory

Question 11

What tactic did Kennedy believe should be taken to deal South Vietnam?

Answer 11

Counterinsurgency

Question 12

3 examples of recommendations made to Kennedy about how to deal with Vietnam?

Answer 12

Training of SV army
Increase in helicopter force
Increase in USA combat force

Question 13

Who was General Giap?

Answer 13

Leader of the Viet Minh

Question 14

How many refugees fled from the North by 1955?

Answer 14

1,000,000

Question 15

How many government officials were killed in 1961 by the NLF?

Answer 15

4,000 in South Vietnam

Question 16

What as the Strategic Hamlet policy and when was it introduced?

Answer 16

Aimed at protecting South Vietnam peasants from the Viet Cong but it was a massive failure - introduced in March 1962

Question 17

What form of opposition to Diem took place in the summer of 1963?

Answer 17

Monks burning themselves alive

Question 18

Who was the Buddhist leader who wanted reforms?

Answer 18

Tri Quang

Question 19

When was Diem assassinated?

Answer 19

November 1963

Question 20

When was Kennedy assassinated?

Answer 20

November 1963