DSST History Of The Vietnam War Practice Test

The Viet Cong was a communist-led army and guerrilla force in South Vietnam also known as what?

Viet Cong National Liberation Front South Vietnamese Army Hmong Free Fighters

Correct Answer:

National Liberation Front

Explanation:

The main idea is that the Viet Cong operated as the military arm of a broader political coalition. That coalition, formed in 1960, was called the National Liberation Front. The Viet Cong carried out guerrilla warfare and other insurgent actions to advance the NLF’s aim of ending the South Vietnamese government and unifying Vietnam under a communist system, with support from North Vietnam. The other groups listed aren’t correct: the South Vietnamese Army (ARVN) was the non-communist state army, and the Hmong Free-Fighters were a separate ethnic-military unit allied with the U.S. The Viet Cong name is the common shorthand for the insurgents, but their formal umbrella organization was the National Liberation Front.

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