Know where the following are located and why they are important:
Korea Formosa Manchuria
Seoul South Vietnam North Vietnam
Hanoi Ho Chi Minh City Saigon
Mekong Delta Red River DMZ
Inchon Dienbienphu Tonkin Gulf
Hue Cambodia Haiphong
Yalu River French Indochina Laos
Identify the following people: Who were they, where and when did they live and
why were they important:
Syngman Rhee King Kojong Kim Il Sung
General MacArthur General Ridegway Park Chung Hee
Kim Young Sam Kim Chong Il Ho Chi Minh
Nguyen Ai Quoc Bao Dai Policy of Containment
Henry Kissinger Le Duk Tho General Westmoreland
Robert Macnamara Ngo Dinh Diem Big Minh
General Giap Ngo Dinh Nhu Ngo Dinh Thuc
Nguyen Cao Ky Sihanouk Nguyen Van Thieu
Nguyen Ai Quoc Henry Cabot Lodge
Describe the following terms: What were they , when did they occur, or first
occur, and why were they important:
Treaty of Portsmouth March 1 Movement 38th Parallel
Inchon Landing Pusan Perimeter Land Reform Porgram
1988 Summer Olympics Comfort Girl Issue New Community Movement
The Inchon Landing Cult of Personality The Domino Theory
Vietminh Ho Chi Minh Trail The 1954 Geneva Conference
Vietcong Tonkin Gulf Resolution Strategic Hamlet Program
Tonkin Gulf Incident Tet Offensive Operation Rolling Thunder
Vietnamization The Korean War Agricultural Reform Tribunals
Secure Village Program Green Berets The Great Society
Cambodian Incursion USS Maddox Fragging
Greater East Asia Coprosperity Sphere Geneva Conference on Indo-China
Agricultural Reform Tribunals Search and Destroy Missions
Comprehensive Questions (One of these will be on the test worth 20 points. You
should be prepared to write about one full page on each of these questions)
1. Discuss the reasons that the United States became involved in the war in Vietnam.
Were these reasons valid from today's perspective? Why or Why not?
2. South Korean has become one of the worlds industrial powers while industry in
the North has stagnated. Discuss some of the reasons for this difference and
its effect on the relationships between the two states.
3. Discuss some of the reasons that you feel the communist led Vietminh and
Vietcong were victorious over countries that had much greater military power.
What factors aided them and what factors did they need to overcome to achieve
victory?