Continued notes on Vietnam. Went over topics for group test next week.
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 (Jimmy Carton)
-Persian Gulf War(1991)
-9-11
-War in Afghanistan
-War in Iraq
-Civil Rights Issues(African Americans, Women)
Notes:
Nixon and Vietnam
- Nixon called for the “vietnamization” of the war
- “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
- 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
- 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
- Fighting stopped
- US would pull out of Vietnam
- North and South Vietnam would recognize each other’s independence (south was left democratic)
Peace??
- The peace agreement did not last
- In March 1975, the North invaded the South
- 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 Minh City in honor of the former president of North Vietnam
- Vietnam is still communist today
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