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Who Was Who in the Vietnam War

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Who Was Who in the Vietnam War game quiz
"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."

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



1. He was the last emperor/king of Vietnam?
    Bao Dai
    Nguyên Van Thieu
    Nguyên 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 Nhu
    Madam Thieu
    Madam Ky
    Madam Minh


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


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


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


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


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.
    Nguyên Van Thieu
    Duong Van Minh
    Nguyên Cao Ky
    Vo Nguyên Giap


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


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


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.
    Wendell Anderson
    Karl Rolvag
    Eugene McCarthy
    Paul Wellstone


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.
    Robert McNamarra
    Aldrich Ames
    Richard Helms
    William Colby


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.
    Dith Pran
    Pol Pot
    Lon Nol
    Ieng Sary


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


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


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

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