Starter quiz
- What year did President Johnson begin peace negotiations between North and South Vietnam?
- 1968 ✓
- 1969
- 1970
- 1971
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- Which issue prevented negotiations from beginning quickly?
- where the negotiations would take place
- how long the negotiations would last for
- what the menu would be during the negotiations
- what shape the negotiating table would be ✓
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- Who was Nixon in secret contact with during the 1968 presidential election?
- Ho Chi Minh
- Le Duc Tho
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- Nguyen Van Thieu ✓
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- Place the events in chronological order.
- 1⇔Johnson begins peace negotiations with North and South Vietnam.
- 2⇔Nixon begins secret negotiations with North Vietnam.
- 3⇔North Vietnam begin the Easter Offensive.
- 4⇔The US begin Operation Linebacker.
- 5⇔A draft peace treaty is drawn up.
- Which countries did Nixon make trips to in order to improve relations with whilst the peace negotiations were ongoing?
- Cambodia
- China ✓
- Laos
- Thailand
- USSR ✓
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- Complete the sentence: Henry Kissinger publicly announced that "______ is at hand" in reference to the draft peace treaty that he had helped to write.
- 'peace' ✓
Exit quiz
- What did Nixon promise South Vietnamese president Nguyen Van Thieu if he would resume peace talks in December 1972?
- $500 million in military equipment
- $1 billion in military equipment ✓
- a seat on the UN Security Council
- control of SEATO
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- Complete the sentence: Operation Linebacker II is also known as the ______ Bombings, after the time of year when it took place.
- 'Christmas' ✓
- Match the keywords to the correct definition.
- treaty⇔a formal agreement between countries ✓
- ceasefire⇔a temporary stoppage of a war ✓
- unification⇔to join together or make something whole ✓
- Under the terms of the peace treaty, how long did American troops have to leave Vietnam?
- 1 day
- 1 week
- 30 days
- 60 days ✓
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- Roughly how many US prisoners of war (POWs) were returned once the peace treaty was agreed?
- 600 ✓
- 2000
- 8000
- 32 000
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- When did North Vietnam begin their final offensive against South Vietnam?
- March 1973
- March 1974
- March 1975 ✓
- March 1976
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Key learning points
- Nixon used a ‘carrot and stick’ approach to restart negotiations
- The US accepted the unification of Vietnam during the Paris Peace Agreement
- The USA had to withdraw from Vietnam
- The USA agreed not to involve itself in Vietnamese affairs
- Saigon fell to North Vietnam when the North invaded South Vietnam again in 1975
Common misconception
The US has always been too large and powerful to lose a war.
The majority of people regard the Vietnam War as a loss for the US: they did not achieve their stated goal of containing communism.
Keywords
Treaty - a treaty is a formal agreement between countries
Unification - unification means to join together or make something whole
Ceasefire - a ceasefire is a temporary stoppage of a war, in which both sides agree to pause aggressive actions
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