Went over topics for group test next week.
7. What were the goals for the US during the Cold War?
(Key Terms)
8. What were some of the major events that took place during the Cold War?
-Berlin Blockade/airlift, Cuban Missile Crisis, Red Scare/McCarthyism, Space Race, Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall,
9. Why did the US go to war in Korea and Vietnam and what were outcome of those wars?
10. How did the Cold War come to an end?
11. Know these major major post-Cold War Events:
-JFK Assassination
-Watergate
-Iran Hostage Crisis (Jimmy Carton)
-Persian Gulf War(1991)
-9-11
-War in Afghanistan
-War in Iraq
-Civil Rights Issues(African Americans, Women)
Vietnam notes continued:
- Nixon called for the “vietnamization” of the war-we're going to pull out and let the Vietnamese fight it.
- “Peace with Honor”- he didn’t want to be the first president to lose a war; when we leave, we want peace to ensue and to leave with honor. We want to leave S Vietnam without communism.
- Gradually pulled US troops out and train the ARVN to take our place in fighting the North
- Then he started thinking he could win the war; expanded the war into Laos and Cambodia leading to college protests (Kent St.) and it was a very unpopular move.Why bomb Laos and Cambodia? Ho Chi Mihn trail went through Laos and Cambodia and supplied the Viet Cong in the South. Bombing didn't stop the supply of goods and it ticked of Americans.
- Thought he could stop the supply line, the “Ho Chi Minh Line”, with bombing but really didn’t do much because they could pass under, over, and around the line
- On January 15, 1973, President Nixon announced the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam
- The Paris Peace Accords were later signed on January 27, 1973, which officially ended US involvement in the Vietnam conflict- we really didn't win or loose the war, but we failed to contain communism.
- Fighting stopped
- US would pull out of Vietnam
- North and South Vietnam would recognize each others' independence (south was left democratic)
- The peace agreement did not last
- In March 1975, the North invaded the South-still communist to this day
- The South was not strong enough and fell quickly
- Saigon, the South’s capital, fell on April 30, 1975
- US did not live up to its promise to come to their aid if the North attacked
- North Vietnam united both North and South Vietnam on July 2, 1976 to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
- Saigon renamed to Ho Chi Mihn City in honor of the former president of North Vietnam
- Vietnam is still communist today
Deaths
We lost: 58,000 people
ARVN: 223,748
NVA?VA: 1,100,000
War Powers Act 1973-The president can use the military how he want for 60 days, but if congress doesn't agree after 60 days, troops are pulled out.
Jimmy Carter (D) 39th 1977-1981
Background
- born in small town Georgia
- Only president to be on Welfare, he grew up poor
- he joined the navy and fought in WW2
- He took over his father's peanut farm-it was successful and he ended up very wealthy
- He was Governor of Georgia before he became president
- strongly emphasized human rights
- has been a very active former president
- only president to receive a Nobel peace prize after being in office
- one term president
- went down in history as a bad president
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