wednesday 5/8/13

Vietnam cont.-

how they got out of serving cont.-
- Claimed being homosexual
- being rich
Nixon and Vietnam-
- Nixon called for the "vietnamization" of the war
- "Peace with Honor"
- Gradually pull US troops out and train the ARVN to take our place in fighting the north
- Expanded the war into Laos and Cambodia leading to college protests (Kent St.)
- On January 15, 1973 was is over
- Paris peace accords signed on January 27, 1973 which officially ended the war
- fighting stopped
- US would pull out of Vietnam
- North and south Vietnam would recongize each others independence
Peace???-
- the peace agreement did not last
- March 1975 the north invaded the south
- the south was not strong enough and fell
- Saigon the Souths capital fell on April 30, 1975
- US did not live up to it's 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 was renamed Ho Chi Minh City in honor of the former president of North Vietnam
- Vietnam is still communist today
Vietnam deaths-
- US- 58,202
- ARVN- 223,748
- NV/A/VC- 1,100,000
war power act 1973-
- president can't send troops anywhere for more then 60 days without congress supporting them

semester test blog- #s 7-11

7. What were the goals for the US during the Cold War?

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, End of the Cold War

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

-Persian Gulf War(1991)

-9-11

-War in Afghanistan

-War in Iraq

-Civil Rights Issues(African Americans, Women)

group test over all of above also on semester test

39th President Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)

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