Home Work Question Sheet

Guerilla warfare in Vietnam

You will be tested on these events at

the beginning of next lesson. Ensure

you revise them!

1) Explain how the Vietcong would win the South Vietnamese villagers over to their side.

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2) What did the Americans call this policy of winning the South Vietnamese over to their side?

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3) Why did the Vietcong avoid if they could, fire fights with the America troops?

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4) Give three different tactics the Vietcong used to fight American soldiers?

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5) How did the North Vietnamese supply their soldiers in the south?

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6) Give three reasons why the Americans found it difficult to stop these supplies reaching

them.

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