Statistics for AQA GCSE History "Conflict and Tension in Asia" - People

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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	89%
Leader of the USSR at the end of the Second World War	Joseph Stalin	89%
Co-founder of the Vietminh who became the leader of North Vietnam	Ho Chi Minh	83%
Leader of North Korea from 1948	Kim Il-Sung	80%
US President who greatly increased US involvement in Vietnam following the attack in the Gulf of Tonkin	Lyndon B. Johnson	79%
US President who introduced Vietnamisation	Richard Nixon	79%
Dictator who was defeated by the USA and the USSR in the Second World War	Adolf Hitler	77%
Second World War General who was the chief of UN forces in Korea from June 1950 - April 1951	Douglas MacArthur	75%
First leader of Communist China	Mao Zedong	74%
First President of South Korea	Syngman Rhee	74%
US President who backed a coup against the leader of South Vietnam	John F. Kennedy	73%
British Prime Minister who coined the term "Iron Curtain"	Winston Churchill	72%
US President from 1953 who negotiated the peace treaty at the end of the Korean War	Dwight D. Eisenhower	71%
Leader of South Vietnam who was strongly opposed to Communism and known for being nepotistic	Ngo Dinh Diem	71%
US President for most of the Second World War	Franklin D. Roosevelt	51%
Civil rights leader who opposed the Vietnam War	Martin Luther King Jr.	50%
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	44%
Sport personality who refused to fight in Vietnam and was sentenced to go to prison, though this sentence was eventially overturned	Muhammad Ali	44%
US National Security Advisor who negotiated US withdrawal from Vietnam	Henry Kissinger	40%
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	30%
US President who became the president after the previous one resigned due to the Watergate Scandal	Gerald R. Ford	29%
Lieutenant who was court-martialled for 22 murders in the My Lai Massacre - his defence was that he was following orders	William Calley	27%
North Vietnamese chief negotiator who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 along with the above	Le Duc Tho	26%
US Secretary of State who was the namesake of a plan to aid countries at risk of becoming Communist	George Marshall	25%
Singer of the anti-war songs "Imagine" and "Give Peace a Chance"	John Lennon	24%
Buddhist monk who burnt himself alive in public to protest against the South Vietnamese government	Thich Quang Duc	24%
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%
Leader of China before the Communist revolution	Chiang Kai-shek	20%
Commander of US forces in Vietnam from 1964-1968	William Westmoreland	19%
Head of the US department of justice whose house was bombed, triggering the First Red Scare	Alexander Mitchell Palmer	17%
Former emperor of Vietnam who was the opponent of the above in a fraudulent election in 1955	Bo Dai	17%
Leader of the National Liberation Front (Vietcong), who was not a Communist	Hua Tho	11%
South Vietnamese police chief filmed shooting a Vietcong fighter in the head	Nguyen Ngoc Loan	9%
Co-founder of the Vietminh	Vo Nguyen Giap	9%
Singer of the anti-war song "Blowin' in the Wind"	Bob Dylan	8%
Soldier who wrote to US politicians and military leaders to expose the My Lai Massacre	Ronald Ridenhour	8%
North Korean Pilot who defected to the US after the end of the Korean War and received a large reward	No Kum-sok	7%
Sister-in-law of the South Vietnamese leader who was outspoken against his opponents	Tran Le Xuan (Madame Nhu)	7%
Democratic presidential candidate in the 1968 US Presidential Election	Hubert Humphrey	6%
Nine-year-old Vietnamese girl who was photographed running naked down a road after a napalm attack	Phan Thi Kim Phuc	5%
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%
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%
Replacement of the above after the President refused him 200,000 more troops to fight in Vietnam	Creighton Abrams	3%
US representative who began peace talks in Paris in 1969	Henry Cabot Lodge	1%
Fourteen-year-old girl depicted screaming in this photo	Mary Ann Vecchio	1%
Student who was shot at Kent State University and was the subject of a famous photograph	Jeffrey Miller	0%
US Senator who was the namesake of an Act requiring Communists to be investigated by HUAC and limiting their employment opportunities	Pat McCarran	0%