Statistics and dates

• How much of french expenses did the US cover in the French indochina war?

  80%
• What years was Truman in power for?

  1945-1953
• What years was president eisenhower in power for?

  1953-1961
• whats years was kennedy in power for?

  1961-1963
• what years was johnson in power for?

  1963 - 1969
• How many strategic hamlets were built?

  3000
• when was the strategic hamlet program?

  1962
• What percentage of south Vietnam was controlled by the vietcong in 1964?

  35%
• When was the gulf of tonkin incident?

  1964
• How many us soliders in Vietnam in 1968?

  500,000
• What year did operation rolling thunder start?

  1965
• How many litres of agent orange did the US use?

  77 million litres
• How many tonnes of Napalm was dropped between 1965-73?

  400,000 tonnes
• What year was the battle of Khe Sahn?

  1968
• how many troops did general westmoreland send to Khe Sahn?

  6,000
• Casualty count of the battle of khe sahn?

  US: roughly 200 North Vietnamese: 10,000
• What year was the tet offensive?

  1968
• how many communist soldiers fought in the tet offensive?

  84,000
• Tet offensive causality count?

  USA: 1,500

  Communist: 58,000
• How many soliders were withdrawn in the first withdrawals in 1969?

  25,000 and 60,000 most 6 months later
• Whe did the war spread to cambodia and Laos?

  Camobia: 1970

  Laos: 1971
• How many elite troops were sent to destroy the Ho chi minh trail in Laos?

  5000 and 2500 were killed the the NVA
• when was large-scale bombing of N Vietnam restarted?

  1971
• When did Nixon increase bombing due to Thieu stalling peace talks?

  1972
• What did the new york times call Nixons bombing campaign on Hanoi and Haiphong?

  'diplomacy through terror,'
• When was the paris peace agreement?

  1973
• What year did Nixon visit UUSR & china?

  1972
• What year was My lai?

  1968
• How many people women and childrem were killed at My Lai?

  500
• What year was the phoenix program?

  1968
• How many people did the phoenix program target?

  28,000
• When were the kent state shootings?

  1970
• How many students died at kent state?

  4
• When were the fullbright hearings?

  1971
• How any people gave testimony at the Fulbright hearings?

  22
• What year were the pentagon papers leaked?

  1971
• Who was the paper pentagon papers leaked to?

  New york times by a military analyst
• What percent of americans strongly opposed the invasion in 1970?

  35%
• When did most US soliders die in vietnam?

  within their first 3 months
• How many US soliders were treated for drug use?

  20,000