1. 5 years
   10 years
2. 20 years plus

The Vietnam War started in 1954 when Northern forces invaded the South and ended more than two decades later when South Vietnam surrendered in 1975.

1. England
   Soviet Union
2. France

France maintained rule over Vietnam for decades until 1945, when Vietnam declared its independence and the pre-war unrest began.

1. 17th parallel
   38th parallel
2. Equator

The Geneva Accords, signed in July 1954, divided Vietnam along the 17th parallel and brought temporary peace to the region.

1. Democracy
   Republic
2. Communism

At the start of the war, North Vietnam was controlled by the communists, while the South was ruled by anti-communist leaders.

1. guerilla forces
   anti-war protestors
2. U.S. troops in Vietnam

The Viet Cong was a group of guerilla forces in South Vietnam. By 1964, this group had more than 35,000 fighters in South Vietnam.

1. assassination of President Kennedy
   events at My Lai
2. Gulf of Tonkin incident

After North Vietnamese forces fired on a U.S. ship in the Gulf of Tonkin, Congress authorized full-scale U.S. intervention in Vietnam.

1. true
2. false

U.S. ground forces peaked in 1969 with more than 543,000 American troops fighting alongside South Vietnamese forces.

1. Eisenhower
   Nixon
2. Johnson

Although the U.S. presence in Vietnam started well before this point, the first actual combat troops, the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, were sent in 1965. Lyndon Johnson was president.

1. true
2. false

Ho Chi Minh is known for leading the North Vietnamese to victory during the war. Anti-communist Ngo Dinh Diem ruled South Vietnam from 1955 through 1963.

1. the North and South kept fighting
   the war ended
2. Canadian troops took their place

The last American troops left Vietnam in March 1973. While the North and South kept right on fighting, American involvement in the war had ended for good.

1. Geneva Accord
   The Fall of Saigon
2. Tet Offensive

The war ended when North Vietnamese forces seized control of Saigon in 1975, causing the South to surrender.

1. it became one unified country
   it split into two nations
2. it became a U.S. territory

After the war, Vietnam became the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, a unified, independent nation.

1. 1968
   1970
2. 1972

On January 31, 1968, the North Vietnamese launched the Tet Offensive. This event, named for the Lunar New Year, consisted of dozens of coordinated attacks on the South.

1. true
2. false

After the North seized control of Saigon, it renamed it after the famous communist leader.

1. a former Vietnamese leader
   wife of Vietnam's first post-war president
2. a girl in a famous photograph

Kim Phuc is the name of a young girl captured on film running naked in the streets after she was burned by napalm. Her photo remains one of the most iconic images of the war.

1. true
2. false

North Vietnam suffered heavy attack from the air during the War, but still managed to push on to victory.

1. 4 months
   2 years
2. 4 years

McCain spent more than four years as a POW, where he was tortured regularly before eventually winning his freedom and going on to have a long career in U.S. politics.

1. to invade China
   to invade Japan
2. to invade Cambodia

Nixon announced a plan to draft 150,000 additional soldiers to send to Cambodia in hopes of cutting off supply chains to North Vietnam.

1. true
2. false

While Fonda did tour Hanoi in 1972, the rumors that she turned on potential POWs, leading to their deaths, is not supported by any actual evidence.

1. first U.S. group battle in Vietnam
   massacre of civilians
2. final battle of the War

U.S. troops massacred 400 innocent Vietnamese civilians at My Lai, and only one soldier was ever convicted of a crime for his role in the event.

1. 2
   4
2. 8

Nationals Guardsmen shot four student protesters at the Ohio college on May 4, 1970.

1. 3 million
   6 million
2. 12 million

Around 3 million people died in Vietnam and roughly half of these were Vietnamese civilians.

1. 250,000
   150,000
2. 50,000

A quarter of a million people protested the war on that date in 1969 — the largest anti-war protest in U.S. history.

1. kill people
   kill plants
2. kill insects

Agent Orange was a powerful herbicide designed to kill trees and crops. More than 19 million gallons were sprayed over Vietnam between 1961 and 1972.

1. Steven Spielberg
   George Lucas
2. Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone won a Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts for his efforts in Vietnam. He later went on to direct such films as "Born on the Fourth of July."

1. true
2. false

While around 1.8 million Americans were drafted into service in Vietnam, this pales in comparison to the 10 million men drafted during WWII.

1. Johnson
   Nixon
2. Carter

On his second day in office, Jimmy Carter officially pardoned all Americans who avoided the draft or failed to register for service in the Vietnam War.

1. $120 million
   $120 billion
2. $120 trillion

The U.S. spent $120 billion on the war. While WWII spending proved to be an economic boom, the Vietnam War was followed by inflation and an oil crisis.

1. true
2. false

It took $8.4 million in donations from private donors to create the famous D.C. monument.

1. Michael Graves
   Buckminster Fuller
2. a college student named Maya Lin

An unknown student architect designed the famous monument after beating 1,400 other designers for the honor.