How did the Vietcong get supplies?

The Ho Chi Minh Trail was a military supply route running from North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia to South Vietnam. During the 1960s, the Ho Chi Minh Trail (actually a network of trails, footpaths and roadways) moved several tons of supplies each day through rugged mountain ranges and dense jungle.

Where were South Vietnamese peasants taken to protect them from Vietcong?

Strategic Hamlet Program
The program was called the Strategic Hamlet Program. The idea behind it was to get South Vietnamese into special villages so they could protect themselves against the Vietcong (known as the VC). The reader will learn about the program, its purpose, and about one village , An loc, that was taken over by the VC.

Where were South Vietnamese peasants taken?

In 1962, the Strategic Hamlet programme was introduced. For sometime the governments of South Vietnam and the United States had been concerned about the influence of the NLF on the peasants. In an attempt to prevent this they moved the peasants into new villages in areas under the control of the South Vietnamese army.

How many strategic hamlets were made?

The Strategic Hamlet Program “aimed to condense South Vietnam’s roughly 16 000 hamlets (each estimated to have a population of slightly less than 1000) into about 12000 strategic hamlets”.

What were safe Hamlets?

Ngo Dinh Diem’s Strategic Hamlets policy had been introduced in 1962. It was meant to create ‘safe villages’, and was supposed to stop the Vietcong from getting their supplies and soldiers from villages.

How many Viet Cong were there?

Viet Cong