Vietnam Revision

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Revision Checklist

A useful document containing a series of questions you can use to test yourself or get someone to work with you can be found here. It also contains some useful definitions: Vietnam revision questions

How to answer questions on Vietnam

Mark Scheme

Advice for Section A

Specimen Questions for exam practice

If you are doing these questions under timed conditions, it is best to wait until you are ready to begin before clicking on the links so that you don’t get a sneak preview. Remember that there are three parts to the question and your time should be divided up roughly as follows: a) 9 minutes; b) 12 minutes and c) 24 minutes.

1. Example 1 – parts a, b and c
2. Example 2 – parts a, b and c
3. Example 3 – parts a, b and c
4. Example 4 – parts a, b and c
5. Example 5 – parts a, b and c

Non-standard questions – recommended for practice and revision:

• Possible questions – difficult – tactics & politics

Quizzes to test AND build knowledge
The way to use these quizzes is to really search your memory if the answer doesn’t arrive at first. Don’t look at the answers until you have given it your best shot. This is important! Learning requires effort!

• 1. French Indochina
• 1. French Indochina with Answers
• 2. Geneva to 1961
• 2. Geneva to 1961 with Answers
• 3. Kennedy and Diem
• 3. Kennedy and Diem with answers
• 4. LBJ and Escalation
• 4. LBJ and Escalation with Answers
• Review of period 1945-1964 (answers at the end)
• 5. Media and My Lai
• 5. Media and My Lai with answers
• 6. NLF Tactics
• 6. NLF Tactics with Answers
• 7. American tactics and the Tet Offensive
• 7. American tactics and the Tet Offensive with answers

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