What do you know about the Vietnam War?

[odanny]

Here are some questions to find out.
I got 7 of 11 right, missed 5, 8, 10, and 11.

1) How many American service members served in the Vietnam War?​

A) 1 million
B) 560,000
C) 2.7 million
D) 5.3 million

2) How many Americans died serving in Vietnam?​

A) 220,538
B) 58,220
C) 25,100
D) 110,400

3) Approximately how many Vietnamese died during the Vietnam War, according to best official estimates?​

1) Around 700,000
2) At least 1 million
3) At least 3 million
4) At least 6 million

4) Allied Forces in World War II dropped approximately 1.4 million tons of bombs on Nazi Germany. How many tons of bombs did America drop on Vietnam during the Vietnam War?​

A) 700,000 tons
B) 1.7 million tons
C) 3 million tons
D) 5 million tons

5) Who famously and wrongly predicted seeing a “light at the end of the tunnel” in the Vietnam War in 1967?​

A) Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger
B) President Lyndon B. Johnson
C) General William C. Westmoreland
D) Defense Secretary Robert McNamara

6) What was the Tet Offensive and why was it significant?​

A) An American Easter bombing campaign over Cambodia to choke off the Ho Chi Minh Trail. It caused outrage around the world and on U.S. campuses.

B) North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked an American Navy destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin during the August vacation month, leading the Johnson administration to surge U.S. troops into Vietnam.

C) Viet Cong guerrillas attempted an uprising in South Vietnam on the Lunar New Year. It was ultimately defeated, but the media reporting about the offensive helped turned American public opinion against the war.

D) President Richard M. Nixon ordered the bombing of Hanoi on Christmas Day, sparking protests across the United States. The bombing was successful but the anti-war movement reached a tipping point.

7) What was the most pivotal television moment that helped change American attitudes toward the Vietnam War in 1968?​

A) CBS correspondent Dan Rather angered Nixon by asking if he was a crook at a White House news conference

B) Singer Joan Baez staged a live concert from Hanoi during an American bombing raid that was broadcast on PBS.

C) NBC News broadcast an interview with Jane Fonda while she was visiting Hanoi.

D) CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite returned from a reporting trip to Vietnam and called the war a stalemate that could not be won.

8) Who was the first sitting American president to visit Vietnam?​

1) John F. Kennedy
2) Richard M. Nixon
3) Lyndon B. Johnson
4) Barack Obama

9) When did the United States and Vietnam establish diplomatic relations?​

1) 1976
2) 1980
3) 1995
4) 2000

10) How many Vietnam veterans have been nominated for president of the United States on a major party ticket?​

1) Three
2) None
3) One
4) Five

11) How many American tourists visited Vietnam in 2024?​

A) 1.23 million
B) 510,000
C) 780,000
D) 211,800

Spoiler: Answers

1/C - 2/B - 3/C - 4/D - 5/C - 6/C - 7/D - 8/C - 9/C - 10/A - 11/C

 

[hondo 50]

 

[GLASNOST]

What do you know about the Vietnam War?​

We lost, the good guys won.

 

[lg325]

As always with communist movements it became fascist state. They got rid of one group of Big Corp and replaced it with another group of Big Corp. The war against Totalitarianism is always a noble cause. Those American soldiers died for a noble cause.

 

[candycorn]

Here are some questions to find out.
I got 7 of 11 right, missed 5, 8, 10, and 11.

1) How many American service members served in the Vietnam War?​

A) 1 million
B) 560,000
C) 2.7 million
D) 5.3 million

2) How many Americans died serving in Vietnam?​

A) 220,538
B) 58,220
C) 25,100
D) 110,400

3) Approximately how many Vietnamese died during the Vietnam War, according to best official estimates?​

1) Around 700,000
2) At least 1 million
3) At least 3 million
4) At least 6 million

4) Allied Forces in World War II dropped approximately 1.4 million tons of bombs on Nazi Germany. How many tons of bombs did America drop on Vietnam during the Vietnam War?​

A) 700,000 tons
B) 1.7 million tons
C) 3 million tons
D) 5 million tons

5) Who famously and wrongly predicted seeing a “light at the end of the tunnel” in the Vietnam War in 1967?​

A) Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger
B) President Lyndon B. Johnson
C) General William C. Westmoreland
D) Defense Secretary Robert McNamara

6) What was the Tet Offensive and why was it significant?​

A) An American Easter bombing campaign over Cambodia to choke off the Ho Chi Minh Trail. It caused outrage around the world and on U.S. campuses.

B) North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked an American Navy destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin during the August vacation month, leading the Johnson administration to surge U.S. troops into Vietnam.

C) Viet Cong guerrillas attempted an uprising in South Vietnam on the Lunar New Year. It was ultimately defeated, but the media reporting about the offensive helped turned American public opinion against the war.

D) President Richard M. Nixon ordered the bombing of Hanoi on Christmas Day, sparking protests across the United States. The bombing was successful but the anti-war movement reached a tipping point.

7) What was the most pivotal television moment that helped change American attitudes toward the Vietnam War in 1968?​

A) CBS correspondent Dan Rather angered Nixon by asking if he was a crook at a White House news conference

B) Singer Joan Baez staged a live concert from Hanoi during an American bombing raid that was broadcast on PBS.

C) NBC News broadcast an interview with Jane Fonda while she was visiting Hanoi.

D) CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite returned from a reporting trip to Vietnam and called the war a stalemate that could not be won.

8) Who was the first sitting American president to visit Vietnam?​

1) John F. Kennedy
2) Richard M. Nixon
3) Lyndon B. Johnson
4) Barack Obama

9) When did the United States and Vietnam establish diplomatic relations?​

1) 1976
2) 1980
3) 1995
4) 2000

10) How many Vietnam veterans have been nominated for president of the United States on a major party ticket?​

1) Three
2) None
3) One
4) Five

11) How many American tourists visited Vietnam in 2024?​

A) 1.23 million
B) 510,000
C) 780,000
D) 211,800

Spoiler: Answers

1/C - 2/B - 3/C - 4/D - 5/C - 6/C - 7/D - 8/C - 9/C - 10/A - 11/C

7 right
4 wrong

I missed questions 1, 5, 8, and 10--somehow. Who are the 3 Vietnam veterans who were nominated for President? If you're counting Bush and Clinton along with Kerry...I get it but I doubt anyone really considers the first two to be veterans.

Did you credit McNamara with the "light at the end of the tunnel" comment too?

 

[candycorn]

We lost, the good guys won.

 

[Eman623]

I got 8 out of 11 right.

Vietnam won a pyrrhic victory in that war. They would today be far richer and freer if they had lost. They would be one of the Asian Tigers like Korea or Taiwan now. They are only now finally catching up, 50 years later.

And the US lost a war we could have won in three weeks if we'd known how fucked up China was at the time. We could have occupied Hanoi in a few weeks and driven the North Viet leadership into exile. We didn't do this because we were worried about China entering the war, but they were too busy tearing their country apart in the Great Cultural Revolution.

 

[GLASNOST]

As always with communist movements it became fascist state.

What the hell are you talking about?

1). Do you know who defeated and kicked out the corrupt and Imperialist French colonialists?

2). Do you know who defeated and kicked out the corrupt and Fascist American invaders?

3). Do you know who defeated and destroyed the Khmer Rouge?

Those American soldiers died for a noble cause.

That's a lie. "The cause" was making the American MIC and corrupt politicians rich. There was no other "cause" ... and it wasn't "noble"!

 

[GLASNOST]

I got 8 out of 11 right.

Vietnam won a pyrrhic victory in that war. They would today be far richer and freer if they had lost. They would be one of the Asian Tigers like Korea or Taiwan now. They are only now finally catching up, 50 years later.

And the US lost a war we could have won in three weeks if we'd known how fucked up China was at the time. We could have occupied Hanoi in a few weeks and driven the North Viet leadership into exile. We didn't do this because we were worried about China entering the war, but they were too busy tearing their country apart in the Great Cultural Revolution.

It is a testament to human stupidity that there are people who believe that crap.

 

[1srelluc]

Nos.1, 2, 5, 6, 7.....Are the only relevant questions Americans should know.

The rest you can just look-up if need be.

 

[Votto]

Here are some questions to find out.
I got 7 of 11 right, missed 5, 8, 10, and 11.

1) How many American service members served in the Vietnam War?​

A) 1 million
B) 560,000
C) 2.7 million
D) 5.3 million

2) How many Americans died serving in Vietnam?​

A) 220,538
B) 58,220
C) 25,100
D) 110,400

3) Approximately how many Vietnamese died during the Vietnam War, according to best official estimates?​

1) Around 700,000
2) At least 1 million
3) At least 3 million
4) At least 6 million

4) Allied Forces in World War II dropped approximately 1.4 million tons of bombs on Nazi Germany. How many tons of bombs did America drop on Vietnam during the Vietnam War?​

A) 700,000 tons
B) 1.7 million tons
C) 3 million tons
D) 5 million tons

5) Who famously and wrongly predicted seeing a “light at the end of the tunnel” in the Vietnam War in 1967?​

A) Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger
B) President Lyndon B. Johnson
C) General William C. Westmoreland
D) Defense Secretary Robert McNamara

6) What was the Tet Offensive and why was it significant?​

A) An American Easter bombing campaign over Cambodia to choke off the Ho Chi Minh Trail. It caused outrage around the world and on U.S. campuses.

B) North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked an American Navy destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin during the August vacation month, leading the Johnson administration to surge U.S. troops into Vietnam.

C) Viet Cong guerrillas attempted an uprising in South Vietnam on the Lunar New Year. It was ultimately defeated, but the media reporting about the offensive helped turned American public opinion against the war.

D) President Richard M. Nixon ordered the bombing of Hanoi on Christmas Day, sparking protests across the United States. The bombing was successful but the anti-war movement reached a tipping point.

7) What was the most pivotal television moment that helped change American attitudes toward the Vietnam War in 1968?​

A) CBS correspondent Dan Rather angered Nixon by asking if he was a crook at a White House news conference

B) Singer Joan Baez staged a live concert from Hanoi during an American bombing raid that was broadcast on PBS.

C) NBC News broadcast an interview with Jane Fonda while she was visiting Hanoi.

D) CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite returned from a reporting trip to Vietnam and called the war a stalemate that could not be won.

8) Who was the first sitting American president to visit Vietnam?​

1) John F. Kennedy
2) Richard M. Nixon
3) Lyndon B. Johnson
4) Barack Obama

9) When did the United States and Vietnam establish diplomatic relations?​

1) 1976
2) 1980
3) 1995
4) 2000

10) How many Vietnam veterans have been nominated for president of the United States on a major party ticket?​

1) Three
2) None
3) One
4) Five

11) How many American tourists visited Vietnam in 2024?​

A) 1.23 million
B) 510,000
C) 780,000
D) 211,800

Spoiler: Answers

1/C - 2/B - 3/C - 4/D - 5/C - 6/C - 7/D - 8/C - 9/C - 10/A - 11/C

I think #2 is A.

I know this because about 73,000 Americans were killed every year in Vietnam, which is equivalent to how many Americans die every year from Fentanyl overdoses coming across the border and funded by your comrades who are the communist Chinese.

Woopsie, no one cares about that, do they.

 

[odanny]

Did you credit McNamara with the "light at the end of the tunnel" comment too?

Sure did. Did you see "The Fog of War" about him? It's a must see, it's good to hear contrition from someone before they die, unlike most of these horrible war mongers.

The Fog of War (2003) ⭐ 8.0 | Documentary, Biography, History

1h 47m | PG-13

www.imdb.com

I missed #11, even though I was one of those visitors in 2024.

 

[odanny]

Vietnam won a pyrrhic victory in that war. They would today be far richer and freer if they had lost. They would be one of the Asian Tigers like Korea or Taiwan now. They are only now finally catching up, 50 years later.

It is their country to govern however they wish. We had economic sanctions on them and froze them out of world markets for decades after the war.

 

[Zincwarrior]

In ancient times, before the wheel was invented, two warring tribes called the Comes and the Yangs fought for a piece of dirt where it was really hot and rained all day. Little remains of them and their conflict, but its still really hot and rains all day where they fought.

 

[lg325]

Bad strategy by the higher ups is a reason why the war drug out so long. The Viet Veterans, enlisted an officers alike I have spoken to over the years all would like to give Macnamara a hard kick in the butt to put it lightly.
A study of the Seminole Wars in Florida one will see a similarity in strategy and with similar results.

 

[Mr Natural]

It was a military escapade that accomplished nothing and took the lives of over 50,000 young men, many of whom were enslaved aka drafted.

 

[Deadstick]

As always with communist movements it became fascist state. They got rid of one group of Big Corp and replaced it with another group of Big Corp. The war against Totalitarianism is always a noble cause. Those American soldiers died for a noble cause.

They died for the Industrial military complex and nothing else and some of you still don't get it and probably never will, because you are still making the same dumb mistakes today.

 

[Deadstick]

It was a military escapade that accomplished nothing and took the lives of over 50,000 young men, many of whom were enslaved aka drafted.

The real heroes were the guys who told the man where to stick their draft cards.

 

[Deadstick]

What the hell are you talking about?

1). Do you know who defeated and kicked out the corrupt and Imperialist French colonialists?

2). Do you know who defeated and kicked out the corrupt and Fascist American invaders?

3). Do you know who defeated and destroyed the Khmer Rouge?

That's a lie. "The cause" was making the American MIC and corrupt politicians rich. There was no other "cause" ... and it wasn't "noble"!

That's the problem they don't know what the hell they are talking about.

 

[Deadstick]

The real heroes were the guys who told the man where to stick their draft cards.

A Cousin of mine who was American served in Vietnam with the Marines he must have been a real believer because he went twice, i met him a couple of times he was a very nice bloke but totally brainwashed about US foreign policy, his Dad my Uncle served with the US airforce in WW2 which was a war worth fighting.