| Hint | Person | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| US President for most of the Korean War who was the namesake of a "Doctrine" involving the containment of Communism | Harry S. Truman | 90%
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| Leader of the USSR at the end of the Second World War | Joseph Stalin | 89%
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| Co-founder of the Vietminh who became the leader of North Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh | 82%
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| Leader of North Korea from 1948 | Kim Il-Sung | 82%
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| US President who introduced Vietnamisation | Richard Nixon | 78%
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| Dictator who was defeated by the USA and the USSR in the Second World War | Adolf Hitler | 77%
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| US President who greatly increased US involvement in Vietnam following the attack in the Gulf of Tonkin | Lyndon B. Johnson | 77%
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| First leader of Communist China | Mao Zedong | 76%
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| Second World War General who was the chief of UN forces in Korea from June 1950 - April 1951 | Douglas MacArthur | 75%
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| US President who backed a coup against the leader of South Vietnam | John F. Kennedy | 75%
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| British Prime Minister who coined the term "Iron Curtain" | Winston Churchill | 75%
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| First President of South Korea | Syngman Rhee | 71%
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| US President from 1953 who negotiated the peace treaty at the end of the Korean War | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 68%
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| Leader of South Vietnam who was strongly opposed to Communism and known for being nepotistic | Ngo Dinh Diem | 67%
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| US President for most of the Second World War | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 54%
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| Civil rights leader who opposed the Vietnam War | Martin Luther King Jr. | 48%
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| US Senator who claimed to have a list of federal employees who were Communists; he inspired a "Witch Hunt" in the Second Red Scare | Joseph McCarthy | 46%
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| Sport personality who refused to fight in Vietnam and was sentenced to go to prison, though this sentence was eventially overturned | Muhammad Ali | 42%
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| US National Security Advisor who negotiated US withdrawal from Vietnam | Henry Kissinger | 37%
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| US President who became the president after the previous one resigned due to the Watergate Scandal | Gerald R. Ford | 30%
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| US Secretary of State who was the namesake of a plan to aid countries at risk of becoming Communist | George Marshall | 28%
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| North Vietnamese chief negotiator who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 along with the above | Le Duc Tho | 26%
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| Newsreader who was described as the "most trusted man in the country", who said in 1968 that the US would eventually have to negotiate with North Vietnam | Walter Cronkite | 26%
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| Lieutenant who was court-martialled for 22 murders in the My Lai Massacre - his defence was that he was following orders | William Calley | 26%
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| Writer of the report "The Path to Revolution in the South", which stated that North Vietnam had to do more to unite the country, and predicted a war with the USA | Le Duan | 23%
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| Buddhist monk who burnt himself alive in public to protest against the South Vietnamese government | Thich Quang Duc | 23%
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| Leader of China before the Communist revolution | Chiang Kai-shek | 21%
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| Singer of the anti-war songs "Imagine" and "Give Peace a Chance" | John Lennon | 21%
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| Head of the US department of justice whose house was bombed, triggering the First Red Scare | Alexander Mitchell Palmer | 18%
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| Commander of US forces in Vietnam from 1964-1968 | William Westmoreland | 18%
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| Former emperor of Vietnam who was the opponent of the above in a fraudulent election in 1955 | Bo Dai | 17%
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| Leader of the National Liberation Front (Vietcong), who was not a Communist | Hua Tho | 10%
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| Co-founder of the Vietminh | Vo Nguyen Giap | 10%
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| Singer of the anti-war song "Blowin' in the Wind" | Bob Dylan | 9%
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| South Vietnamese police chief filmed shooting a Vietcong fighter in the head | Nguyen Ngoc Loan | 9%
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| Soldier who wrote to US politicians and military leaders to expose the My Lai Massacre | Ronald Ridenhour | 8%
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| North Korean Pilot who defected to the US after the end of the Korean War and received a large reward | No Kum-sok | 7%
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| Sister-in-law of the South Vietnamese leader who was outspoken against his opponents | Tran Le Xuan (Madame Nhu) | 7%
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| Democratic presidential candidate in the 1968 US Presidential Election | Hubert Humphrey | 6%
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| Nine-year-old Vietnamese girl who was photographed running naked down a road after a napalm attack | Phan Thi Kim Phuc | 5%
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| Helicopter pilot who intervened in the My Lai Massacre and was subsequently ostracised for doing so - he gave evidence against the above | Hugh Thompson | 4%
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| First Secretary General of the United Nations who resigned after the USSR refused to accept him as Secretary General because of his involvement in the Korean War | Trygve Lie | 4%
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| Replacement of the above after the President refused him 200,000 more troops to fight in Vietnam | Creighton Abrams | 3%
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| US representative who began peace talks in Paris in 1969 | Henry Cabot Lodge | 1%
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| Fourteen-year-old girl depicted screaming in this photo | Mary Ann Vecchio | 1%
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| Student who was shot at Kent State University and was the subject of a famous photograph | Jeffrey Miller | 0%
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| US Senator who was the namesake of an Act requiring Communists to be investigated by HUAC and limiting their employment opportunities | Pat McCarran | 0%
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