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Date Chinese rule of Vietnam
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111BC-1789
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Date French rule of Vietnam
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1883-1954
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Date Japanese rule of Vietnam and what did they do when they left?
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1940 -1945, declared Vietnam independent.
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Name and date the battle in which France lost control of Indo China.
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Dien Bien Phu 1954.
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Name and date the two movements set up by Ho Chi Minh.
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1924 Indo Chinese Communist Party and 1941 Vietminh.
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What did Ho Chi Minh do in September 1945?
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Announce the Independent Republic of Vietnam.
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Name an date the conference, it’s results.
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Geneva Agreement, 1954, 17th Parallel, Elections in 1956.
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Who was the South Vietnam leader how badly did he rig the elections?
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Ngo Dinh Diem. Out of 450,000 people in Saigon, 605,000 voted Diem.
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Name and date the South Vietnam opposition group.
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1960 National Liberation Front.
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Name and date the 73 year old Buddhist Monk set himself on fire in protest at the ban on celebrating Buddha’s birthday.
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Quang Duc 1963
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Name and date the new communist ruler of China.
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Mao Zedong, 1949.
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Name and date the major war that China supported in the region.
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Korean War 1950 -53
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Name and date the crisis and leaders involved in the western hemisphere.
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Cuban Missile, Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1962
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Which U.S president stated which 1956 theory concerning communism and South East Asia.
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Eisenhower, Domino Theory, 1956.
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Kennedy spent how much in support of Diem in 1961?
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$270 Million
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Johnson made an announcement after the destroyer Maddox was fired at. Name and date:
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 1964.
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How many US combat troops landed in which year in Vietnam.
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3,500 1965
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