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- 5. What was the first Asian Nation to fall to Communism?
- 9. What was the name of the communist group in South Vietnam?
- 13. What was the name of the U.S. Navy Destroyer that the North Vietnamese attacked while patrolling the Gulf of Tonkin?
- 14. Who was the leader of the communist Vietnamese resistance movement?
- 15. In the South, most of the peasants supported _________.
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- 1. Which leader did many of the South Vietnamese support?
- 2. Which President sent a half a million US combat troops to Vietnam?
- 3. The conflict in Vietnam that developed following the French defeat can best be described as this type of War.
- 4. Which President did Congress give permission to go to war with North Vietnam to?
- 6. Which city was captured by Ho Chi Minh in 1945?
- 7. Describe the type of military force President Kennedy sent to Vietnam.
- 8. In 1954, where were the French defeated after they tried to regain control?
- 10. What belief involves the assumption that if one country falls to communism, the neighboring countries would follow suit?
- 11. What did Ngo Dinh Diem not like that led many South Vietnamese to rebel?
- 12. What was the U.S. afraid would spread to South Vietnam and the other parts of asia?
