Vietnam: Keylor Reading Questions

Keylor - pages 337-347

1. Who was Ho Chi Minh? Explain his resistance to the French.
2. In what ways  did the US support France in the late 1940s?
3. What happened at Dien Bien Phu?
4. What were the conditions of the 1954 Geneva Accords?
5. Why didn’t the US support the elections mandated in the Geneva Accords?
6. What was SEATO?
7. Who were the Viet Cong?
8. What happened in the Gulf of Tonkin? What resulted from the incident?
9. Make a simple graph of American troops in Vietnam over the course of the war.
10. Identify the reasons for declining support for the war in the United States.