QR Challenge: The Origins of the Vietnam War

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Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.

2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to

Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa ) onto their mobile devices
Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

B. The lesson:

1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.

2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.

3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!

C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. The name of the country which ruled Vietnam for much of ancient history?	China
2. The name of the king who helped Vietnam achieve independence in 939 AD?	Ngo Quyen
3. The word referring to when a land or territory is conquered and ruled by a distant, often imperial, power?	Colonisation.
4. The European power which took control of Vietnam in the 1800s?	France
5. The name used to refer to Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam by a European country beginning in the 1800s?	Indochina
6. The primary motivation for colonisation?	Economic exploitation
7. The name of the Vietnamese resistance and liberation movement formed in 1941?	Viet Minh
8. The name of the leader of the Viet Minh?	Ho Chi Minh
9. The name of the Asian power which occupied Vietnam during WWII?	Japan
10. In August, 1945, what government was established in Vietnam?	Democratic Republic of Vietnam
11. France return to re-colonise Vietnam in what year?	1946
12. Which of the two rival superpowers did the leader of the DRV initially try to seek help from?	USA
13. Why did the USA support France in Vietnam?	Allies/support for Marshall Plan
14. In which war in Asia did the USA fight between 1950-1953?	Korea
15. Which countries gave support to the DRV from the 1950s?	Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China
16. The name of the war fought by the Vietnamese against the French from 1946?	First Indochina War
17. The name of the battle at which DRV forces defeated the French, leading to the withdrawal of French forces from Vietnam?	Dien Bien Phu
18. The demilitarized zone established between North and South Vietnam after the defeat of the French?	17th parallel
19. What political system/ideology did the DRV operate under?	Communism
20. SEATO stands for?	Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation
21. SEATO was established to prevent the spread of...?	Communism in SE Asia
22. The Second Indochina War was caused by?	The inability to come to an agreement about elections in Vietnam/conflicting ideologies
23. Who was predicted to win the presidential elections in 1956 which never took place?	Ho Chi Minh