"The Forgotten War"
The Korean Conflict:
Communism vs Democracy. Trying to unite North and South Korea.
After muchos fight-os and the involvement of the united nations, we pushed up the border to north korea, who had just become communist. china gets worried, and invades north korea to help them out. they pushed us back to approx the first position. so it went- half, way down, way up, half.
Eisenhower became pres and promised to end the vietnam war, which he did.
North korea said they'd invade south again, so we have troups there ready for in just in case.
North korea is focused on weaponry, but they have a horrible economy, but they have nuclear weapons.
south korea is doing quite well, however. flourishing.
For the Semester Test and its Blog, there are a lot of things we could talk about. But we should stick to the basics and the things that stand out.
Soviet invasion of afghanistan really wore out the soviets and helped the downfall of communism.
Last presentation. The Fall of Communism.
A list of countries were invloved- had revolutions to break free of communism (in the 80s and 90s). Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia. broke free from soviet control.
This dude talks really quiet. He's like right in front of me and he mutters sometimes....powerpoint is hard to read too. a bit. kinda pity the guy, he's only been here for like a month or two.
Vietnam conflict:
Our goal was to stop Communism, of course.
Ho Chi Men.
We feared that if communism spread to vietnam, the domino effect would take charge and thats it.
so, north vietnamese wanted independence from france. they attacked south, france retaliated, and we stepped in to help too. 1950s.
military advisors.
JFK early 60s. Green Barates, and morea advisors.
LBJ Gulf of Tonkin Revolution. more combat troops. more combat troops. escalation until 1968. and then the desent until 1973.
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