Starter quiz
- Who were the Viet Minh?
- a Chinese communist group that aimed to take control of all of Southeast Asia
- the name given to the Japanese when they controlled French Indochina during WW1
- a communist nationalist group that fought for Vietnamese independence ✓
- a group that worked with the French to help govern French Indochina
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- Complete the sentence: the Viet Minh specialised in __________ warfare.
- 'guerrilla' ✓
- How did the people of France refer to the conflict in Vietnam against the Viet Minh?
- 'The forbidden war'
- 'The great patriotic war'
- 'The necessary war'
- 'The dirty war' ✓
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- Which countries supported the Viet Minh during their conflict with France?
- China and Laos
- Soviet Union and Cambodia
- Laos and Cambodia
- China and Soviet Union ✓
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- How was Vietnam divided at the Geneva Conference in 1954?
- at the 1st parallel; most of the territory went to North Vietnam
- at the 17th parallel; roughly in half ✓
- at the 21st parallel; land was lost to Cambodia and Laos
- at the 38th parallel; most of the territory went to South Vietnam
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- When were elections supposed to take place to unify Vietnam?
- '1956' ✓
Exit quiz
- Complete the sentence: The __________ Scare referred to a wave of anti-communist feeling in the US.
- 'Red' ✓
- Which area of Europe saw communist parties come to power in multiple countries?
- North
- South
- East ✓
- West
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- What plan aimed to rebuild Europe in order to prevent the spread of communism?
- The Major Plan
- The General Plan
- The Admiral Plan
- The Marshall Plan ✓
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- Which Asian country became communist in 1949?
- 'China' ✓
- Place the events in the correct order
- 1⇔end of the Second World War
- 2⇔Second Red Scare begins in the US
- 3⇔China becomes communist
- 4⇔Communist North Korea invades capitalist South Korea
- 5⇔Vietnam is split into North Vietnam and South Vietnam
- What was the term given to President Eisenhower's fear of communist governments coming to power in Southeast Asia?
- conspiracy theory
- containment theory
- domino theory ✓
- Marxist theory
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Key learning points
- America had been opposed to communism long before the Cold War started.
- Communism spread rapidly after World War Two.
- America committed itself to containing the spread of communism.
- Eisenhower believed communism might spread in Southeast Asia.
- Eisenhower committed large amounts of money to supporting Diem to stop the spread of communism in Vietnam.
Common misconception
Foreign aid support packages, for instance Marshall Aid, are made up of just money.
Equipment such as heavy machinery or weapons, natural resources such as coal, as well as money, make up foreign aid support packages.
Keywords
Containment - Containment was a foreign policy strategy used by the US during the Cold War to try to prevent the spread of communism
Domino theory - the Domino Theory was the idea that if one country fell to communism more would follow
Marshall aid - Marshall Aid (or the Marshall Plan) was the American strategy of giving money to European countries to help them recover after World War Two
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