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Quiz

 

Vietnam War

1.      Were is Vietnam?

2.      Who was the president of South Vietnam when the war ended?

3.      Who was the president of America at the begging of the war?

4.      What year did the American forces join the war?

5.      During what war had the Vietminh taken land from large landowners in the territory they controlled and given it to peasants?

6.      How long did it take to travel from North Vietnam to Saigon on the Ho Chi Minh Trail?

7.      What bomb was made up of 250 metal pellets inside a small canister?

8.      What was Agent Orange used to do?

9.      What was one way young men could avoid going to war?

10.   How old was the average soldier in Vietnam?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANSWERS

  1. Vietnam is a small country to the south of china
  2. Nguyen Van Thieu when the war ended
  3. President Nixon
  4. America entered the war in 1965
  5. The Indochina war
  6. It would take about six months
  7. Pineapple bomb
  8. Agent Orange was used to destroy forests so that it would be easier to see the enemy in them
  9. One of the few ways young men could avoid going to war was to go to college
The average soldier in Vietnam was nineteen