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Who Was Who in the Vietnam War

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Introduction:
"There are many people, some well known and some not so, who had an effect on the war. I'll give a description and you choose the person."


1. He was the last emperor/king of Vietnam?
    Bao Dai
    Nguy?n Van Thieu
    Nguy?n Cao Ky
    Ngo Dinh Diem


2. She said, following the suicide of a Buddhist monk, that she would "clap hands at seeing another monk barbeque show".
    Madam Ky
    Madam Minh
    Madam Thieu
    Madam Nhu


3. He was the commander of the Military Assistance Command Vietnam until 1968.
    Gen. Maxwell Taylor
    Gen. Creighton Abrams
    Gen. William Westmoreland
    Gen. Mathew Ridgeway


4. He was the main architect of North Vietnam's military operations?
    Nguy?n Van Thieu
    Vo Nguy?n Giap
    Nguy?n Cao Ky
    Ngo Dinh Diem


5. When he was young, he was the Lt. Col. who led US troops in a bloody battle in the Ia Drang valley.
    Lew Walt
    Hal Moore
    U. S. Sharp
    William Simmons


6. He was the newsman who questioned, during the Tet Offensive, the eventual out come of the war.
    Ed Bradley
    Mike Wallace
    Walter Cronkite
    Harry Reasoner


7. He was the South Vietnamese general made famous, in a photo, by shooting a Viet Cong suspect.
    General Giap
    General Thieu
    General Minh
    General Loan


8. He was the last president of South Vietnam.
    Duong Van Minh
    Nguy?n Cao Ky
    Nguy?n Van Thieu
    Vo Nguy?n Giap


9. He was the US Ambassador when Cambodia fell to the Khmer Rouge.
    John Dean
    Ellswoth Bunker
    Graham Martin
    William Colby


10. Before he became Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge, his name was what?
    Solath Sar
    Khieu Sampon
    Ieng Sary
    Norodom Sihanouk


11. She had her picture taken on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun. Who was it?
    Jane Fonda
    Joan Baez
    Cher
    Rachel Welch


12. He was an anti-war Senator from Minnesota who ran for president in 1968.
    Eugene McCarthy
    Paul Wellstone
    Karl Rolvag
    Wendell Anderson


13. He was a Lieutenant in C Company who was accused of leading the massacre of civilians in a hamlet of the village of Son My.
    Hugh Thompson, Jr.
    William Calley
    Ernest Medina
    Dennis Conti


14. He was CIA station chief in Saigon in the early 1960s.
    William Colby
    Richard Helms
    Robert McNamarra
    Aldrich Ames


15. He was Premier of North Vietnam (1955-75) and of the reunited Vietnam (1975-86). Who was it?
    Nuygen Cao Key
    Ho Chi Minh
    Pham Van Dong
    Ngo Dinh Diem


16. He was the Secretary of Defense under both Kennedy and Johnson.
    Robert McNamara
    Melvin Laird
    Dean Rusk
    William Rogers


17. He became President of Cambodia after launching a coup against Norodom Sihanouk.
    Lon Nol
    Ieng Sary
    Pol Pot
    Dith Pran


18. He was the President who ordered the 'Rolling Thunder' bombing campaign of North Vietnam
    Richard Nixon
    John Kennedy
    Lyndon Johnson
    Gerald Ford


19. He won the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize with Henry Kissinger for negotiating an end to the Vietnam War.
    Ho Chi Minh
    Kong Le
    Ngo Dinh Diem
    Le Duc Tho


20. She was the girl running down a road with napalm burns.
    Nam Phuong
    Le Ly Hayslip
    Kim Phuc
    Tran Le Xuan


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