Deck 12: Colonized, Divided, and Reunited: Vietnam to the Present

Question 1

Nguyen rule in Vietnam from the 1850s to 1950s resembled the rule of ________.

A) China's Special Economic Zones
B) Manchuria under Japanese rule
C) Qing rule in China
D) Japanese emperors under the shoguns

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The goal of the mission civilisatrice was to make Vietnam ________.

A) French
B) forget its past
C) economically part of the French empire
D) proud of its cultural heritage

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Prince Cuong De's political reforms were ________.

A) reactionary
B) revolutionary
C) centered on Communism
D) moderately progressive

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Like many of his contemporaries Phan Boi Chau was inspired by the ________ political model.

A) French
B) Chinese
C) Soviet
D) Japanese

Question 5

As in Korea the outcome of World War I brought ________ for Vietnam.

A) the beginning of independence
B) disappointment
C) economic expansion
D) revolution

Question 6

The Indochinese Communist Party was founded in ________.

A) 1930
B) 1950
C) 1890
D) 1910

Question 7

Which of these was also called the "League for the Independence of Vietnam"?

A) the Vietcong
B) the Viet Minh
C) the Republic of Vietnam
D) the Indochinese Communist Party

Question 8

The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was essentially a ________.

A) Chinese colony
B) Western attempt to perpetuate colonialism
C) continuation of the Open Door policy
D) Japanese empire

Question 9

-Looking at the image "Emperor Bao Dai" which of these is represented?

A) the mission civilisatrice
B) the policy of containment
C) the persistence of Vietnamese traditions
D) Vietnamese nationalism

Question 10

At the end of World War II which of these were placed in charge of Vietnam?

A) UN troops
B) France and China
C) Britain and China
D) France and Britain

Question 11

For the French Dien Bien Phu was a ________.

A) decisive defeat
B) expensive victory
C) draw
D) face-saving victory

Question 12

The Vietcong provided guerilla support for ________.

A) South Vietnam
B) the US
C) Chinse Communists
D) North Vietnam

Question 13

Although committed to ________ the US was reluctant to engage in outright war in Vietnam because of the experience of the ________.

A) democracy; war in the Pacific
B) containment; the Korean War
C) opposing the Khmer Rouge; use of the atomic bomb
D) supporting the Democratic Republic of Vietnam; Second World War

Question 14

The My Lai Massacre was instrumental in ________.

A) reunification of Vietnam
B) supporting Vietnam against Pol Pot
C) turning popular opinion in the US against war in Vietnam
D) convincing the US to commit more troops to Vietnam

Question 15

Which of these assured foreign withdrawal from Vietnam?

A) the Versailles Peace Conference
B) the 1954 Geneva negotiations
C) the Tokyo Conference of 1943
D) Paris Peace Talks of 1972

Question 16

Considering the events of 1975 US involvement in Vietnam was ________.

A) a failure
B) irrelevant
C) partially successful
D) successful

Question 17

-Looking at Map 12.3 the biggest difference between imperial Vietnam and the reunified Vietnam was ________.

A) the narrow strip connecting North and South
B) the capital
C) the border with China
D) the role of Hanoi

Question 18

What percentage of the Vietnamese population was engaged in farming in 1975?

A) 25
B) 5
C) 50
D) 75

Question 19

The Khmer Rouge was the ________.

A) army of the Vietcong
B) Cambodian Communist Party
C) government of Cambodia
D) Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia

Question 20

Compared to China, contemporary Vietnamese policy towards foreign culture is ________.

A) much more restrictive
B) similar
C) more open
D) the exact opposite