HST195 Midterm Exam Fall 2008

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Following the Geneva Conference, President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles concluded that America would succeed in containing Communism in Indochina where France had failed because: 

The U.S. was trying to foster nationalism in Vietnam whereas the French had sought to perpetuate colonialism. 	(0.00) 	19/22	(86%)				
 	 	American nuclear superiority would permit Washington to dictate terms to Ho Chi Minh. 	(1.00) 	2/22	(9%)


In 1945, two out of eight million Vietnamese people died during a severe rice famine that was almost entirely caused by 

the Japanese 	(1.00) 	7/22	(32%)		 
the French 	(0.00) 	5/22	(23%)

PERHAPS A KARNOW QUESTION ???
Ignorance of Vietnam's history plagued the French, then the Americans. Which of the following were NOT important elements of Vietnam's character? 
The Vietnamese people were always unified in the face of an enemy 	(1.00) 	5/22	(23%)
Wet rice farming led to a strong collective spirit 	(0.00) 	7/22	(32%)

YES A KARNOW QUESTION AND OLD VIDEO CASSETTE
Vietnam was artificially divided into regions by the French during its colonial period. Which section was known as Annam, therefore making all Vietnamese people known to Europeans as Annamites or Annamese? 	4 	(0.00) 	7/22	(32%)	50%