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The Cold War
Nikita Kruschev
He took over after Stalin died 1953-1964
Mikhail Gorbachev
Times are tough
Perestroika
Glasnost
Wanted to give more free speech to people and wanted them to be able to vote
He reall changed the Cold War
After, USSR lost all their power
Berlin Crisis.
The Berlin blockade
Stalin wanted all of Berlin
They blockcaded the city
They wanted to starve the city so they could get the rest.
To solve this, the USA would drop supplies to the Berlin community
Joe McCarthy hated Communism
"McCarthyism"
He would accuse people of Communism.
He had hearings and was able to call people in.
By 1957 he was dead.
McCarthyism
Make accuastions of wrong doing without any evidence.
Berlin Wall
USSR did not want Communist mixing.
Nov. 9 1989 the Berlin wall fell.
1991 Germany became one again.
Korean War
"The Forgotten War"
1950-53
After WW2 Korea was split into 2
There was supposed to be an election held.
Communists thought this wasn't going to be fair
North Korea leader:
Kim II-Sung
In the beggining of the invasion, North Korea was wining.
United Nations then go involved and then South Korea started winning.
North Korea was not prepared for it.
China thought we were going to invade them so they invaded first.
It was a "Back and Fourth" War
The line has stayed the same.
Then there was a signing where North and South Korea said they would stop fighting.
The results of the war
This was considered a limited war.
Where no countries would have to use NUkes.
This expanded the Cold War to Asia since Communism was assoicated with North Korea.
Total Number of deaths were about 2 million in total.
The USA destroyed North Korea with bombing
Tuesday
The Vietnam Conflict
Helicopters were a very good weapon.
The French Connection.
France took over in the mid 1800's
During WWII Japan took it over
Ho Chi Minh was the leader of our enemy
All they wanted was independence
Geneva Confrence.
Vietnam was split into north and south.
Ho Chi Minh was the leader of the North
They wanted to have an election, but this election reall never happened.
United States was helping South Vietnam
North Vietnam and Viet Kong worked in the North
Viet Kong used Gorilla warfare.
They were Communists.
Escalation
This is how we slowly got involved in this war
It started by the USA giving the French money.
Then we sent Military advisors.
Then we sent green berets.
They we used for small operations.
Then we finally sent regular troops over for defensive
Then we sent troops over for offensive war.
Lyndon B. Johnson was the president.
The war statrted by US ships blown up by North Vietnam.
Why were so many people against the war?
The press was always there on the frontlines of Vietnam
People saw terrible pictures.
Tet Offensive
A massive offensive put on by the Viet-Kong.
William Westmareland
He kept asking for troops because he thought the Viet-Kong was losing.
People thought that the Viet-Kong was weak, but they were all wrong.
People thought the government was lieing.
We destroyed the Viet-Kong in this war.
Pentagon Papers
This was leaked to New York Times
Pentagon papers were history of the Vietnam war.
It was showing that the government was lieing to the USA about the war.
My Lai Massacre
This is where Vietnam civilans were killed
504 killed.
Women raped.
Kids and Babies were killed.
Napalm Attack
This was a oily substance that burned.
How did people get out of serving?
They usually went to college or got married.
-Claimed to be homosexual
-Medically "unfit"
-Being rich or knowing the right person.
Nixon and Vietnam
Nixion got the USA out of the war.
Vietnamization
This was simply pulling US troops out of Vietnam
Nixon wanted Peace.
The Paris peace accords were signed to end the fighting.
2 years later, the North invaded the South and took it over.
The South was very weak and then became Communist.
The USA "promised" that if the South were to be attacked again we would help.
We never went back and helped.
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