AQA GCSE History · 8145
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A method of fighting using ambushes, sabotage and hit-and-run attacks rather than relying on open battles between large armies.
Revise: Significance of AsiaThe Vietcong used guerrilla warfare, avoiding the open battles in which American firepower would have its greatest advantage. Instead, they planned ambushes, set traps, sabotaged roads and bridges, and made hit-and-run attacks. Sabotage disrupted enemy movement, while ambushes allowed attacks at a time and place chosen by the guerrillas.
- Revise: Tensions over Cuba
Fighting in which small, mobile groups use surprise attacks rather than confronting an enemy mainly in large, conventional battles.
- Revise: End of French Colonial Rule
Warfare using small groups, surprise attacks and rapid withdrawal rather than relying on large, conventional battles.
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- Revise: Johnson’s War
Fighting through small, mobile groups using methods such as ambushes and surprise attacks rather than relying on conventional battles.
- Revise: Establishing Control
Fighting through raids and ambushes rather than relying on large, open battles.