Causes of Vietnam War

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  1. 2. Who was the leader of the communist Vietnamese resistance movement?
  2. 3. Describe the type of military force President Kennedy sent to Vietnam.
  3. 7. Who was the US Secretary of Defense?
  4. 9. What treaty agreed that the French would leave Vietnam and the country would be split along the 17th Parallel?
  5. 13. During the Civil War, what was the South known as?
  6. 14. Which President sent a half a million US combat troops to Vietnam?
  7. 15. Who were the South Vietnamese unhappy with?
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  1. 1. What was the belief that if one country fell to communism, the neighboring ones would also fall
  2. 4. Which US Navy destroyer was destroyed by North Vietnamese troops?
  3. 5. What was the first Asian Nation to fall to Communism?
  4. 6. Who did the U.S. send supplies to to stop the spread of communism?
  5. 8. What did the peasants of South Vietnam want?
  6. 10. What happened to Diem’s government after Kennedy sent military advisors?
  7. 11. The conflict in Vietnam that developed following the French defeat can best be described as this type of War.
  8. 12. What Empire had Vietnam been a part of before World War II?