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Kim Phuc (“fook”)

1) What year was this picture taken? What city or village?

What country (North or South Vietnam)?

2) How old is this girl in this picture? Describe what is

happening.

3) What is napalm? Why was it used by the US?

4) What has happened to the girl since then?

5) What words come to your mind when seeing this picture?

Thich Quang Duc

6) What year was this picture taken? What city or village?

What country (North or South Vietnam)?

7) What is self-immolation?

8) Who was Thich Quang Duc?

9) What point was he trying to make?

10) How is this a form of protest? Explain.

11) Give an appropriate title to this photograph.

Brig Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan

12) What year was this picture taken? What city or village?

What country (North or South Vietnam)?

13) Who is shooting who? Explain why.

14) What was the Tet Offensive?

15) Why did this picture have so much impact when people saw

it?

16) Give an appropriate title to this photograph.

-My Lai-

www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/vietnam/vietnam_mylai.cfm

17) What year was did this event happen? What city or village?

What country (North or South Vietnam)?

18) What happened at My Lai?

19) Who is most likely holding the gun to this woman’s head?

20) Why did this picture have so much impact when people saw

it?

21) What words come to your mind when seeing this picture?

-Fall of Saigon-

27) What year was this picture taken? What city or village?

What country (North or South Vietnam)?

28) Who is boarding this helicopter? Why?

29) If this happened during the “Fall of Saigon,” then who was

Saigon falling to?

30) Why do many people in what was South Vietnam today feel

that this picture shows how the US abandoned them?

-My Lai-

22) What year was did this event happen? What city or

village? What country (North or South Vietnam)?

23) Give an appropriate title to this photograph.

24) In your opinion, what would drive someone to this type of

massacre?

25) Who committed this atrocity?

26) Why did this picture have so much impact when people saw

it?

Mary Ann Vecchio

31) What year was this picture taken? What US state? What

university?

32) Who is this woman? Age?

33) What had happened just before this picture was taken?

34) Give an appropriate title to this photograph.

35) Why is this one of the most widely seen pictures from the

Vietnam War era?

George Edgerly Harris III (“Flower Power”)

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36) What year was this picture taken? Where in the US?

37) Who was this man? Age? From where? What occupation?

38) Why is this one of the most widely seen pictures from the

Vietnam War era?

39) What does placing flowers in gun barrels symbolize?

40) Give an appropriate title to this photograph.