week April 27th- May 1st

[5Sophie]

Songs:

Korean War: 1950-1953. was invaded by japan 1910-1945. split after ww2. 1950- United Nations invaded

Vietnam War: 

Geneva conference 1954

Ho chi minh

Viet Cong

Guerilla warfare

gulf of Tonkin Resolution

President Lyndon Johnson

General William Westmoreland

Tet offensive

Pentagon Papers

Operating rolling thunder

Ho chi minh trail

Agent orange

napalm

my lai massacre

Vietnam war protestors

Kent St University protest/massacre

President Richard Nixon

Vietnamization

Paris Peace accords 1973

the french connection

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I used Addie's notes because I was gone :

• Germany was never strong after WW2
• Broke into two zones
  • West/ East Germany
• West Germany had help from the Marshall plan
  • East didn't
• 1948 Stalin wants all of Berlin
  • Blockades - an act of war
  • Cut off all transportation needs in west Germany from US

Berlin Blockade and airlift

• Stalin blocks trade from US to west Germany
  • Airlift supplies in
• Stalin admitted defeat
  • Took down blockade

Bay of Pigs 1961

• A body of water in Cuba
• Cuba had become communist
  • US didn't like it
• Fidel Castro was leader of Cuba
• Cuban exiles were trained by the CIA
  • Invade and overthrow Castro
  • Asked SU to bring in nuclear weapons
• Did not give air support to Cubans

Berlin Wall

• People wanted freedom
• "No one will be left if we don't build this wall" -SU
• If people tried to escape, they would be killed
• Totally cut off from other cities
• 1989 Berlin wall falls

Red Scare/McCarthyism

• McCarthyism- accusing people without evidence
• Rosenberg's were caught as SU spies
  • Were executed
• Iron Curtain was a cause
  • China became communist
• USSR's First atomic bomb test
  • 1949
• Alien Registration Act of 1940 (Smith Act)
  • Made it illegal to talk about overthrowing the gov.
  • Took away free speech
• Senator Joe McCarthy
  • Against communism
  • Senator from Wisconsin
  • Gave a speech that has a list of 205 communists in the state department
  • One of the most powerful people in the US
• Downfall of McCarthy
  • Accused people in the US military of being communist
    • Started loosing support
  • Died of alcohol abuse in 1957
• HUAC
  • Concerned with communist propaganda films
  • Hollywood Ten
    • Questioned people accused of communist
  • Blacklist
    • Could not work
  • Charlie Chaplin
    • Career was ruined by communism 
    • Blacklisted 
    • Forced out of the country

China

• Chiang Kia Shek
  • Was not communist
• Moa Zedong
  • Killed over 60 million people in China
  • The Culture Revolution
    • Making people following the government
  • The Great Leap Forward
    • Farmers to plow fields 
    • Using all of their iron to make steel
• Fought from 1928-1937
  • Invaded by Japan
    • WW2 started
• They worked together
  • Split after WW2
• Moa Zedong wins 
• Richard Nixon visits China in 1972- Detente

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Cuba had nuclear missiles
  • Kennedy did not like it
• Last minute Compromise
  • Soviets would remove missiles from Cuba
  • US promise no to invade Cuba
  • US would secretly remove our nuclear missiles from Turkey within 6 months

Korean War Conflict

• Invaded by Japan from 1910- 1945
• After WW2, was split into two
  • USSR north
  • US south
• United Nations held and election in 1948
  • North communist'
    • Kim Jong il
  • South democratic 
    • Sungmann Reed
• North Korea invades
  • Succeeds
• South invades
  • Succeeds
• Back to normal
• North Korea Leaders
  • Kim ll Sung
    • Ruled 1948-1994
  • Kim Jong il
    • Ruled 1994-2011
  • Kim Jong-un
    • Took office in 2011
    • Nuclear aggressiveness
    • "Deadly Nuclear Catastrophe
    • Killed his uncle in 2013]
• Six party talks
  • US, SK, NK, China, Russia, Japan
  • Agrees to halt nuclear weapons in exchange for fuel and food (resources) 
• Dennis Rodman's basketball diplomacy
  • Not politicians
  • "Kim is a good guy"
  • Open the doors for politicians down the road

Vietnam War

• 1950-1975
• US goal was to contain communism
• Communist north Vietnamese wanted to spread communism
• Who fought:
  • US armed forces fights
  • Vietcong and North Vietnamese army
• Geneva Conference 1954
  •  Vietnam split at the 17th parallel line
    • Diem in south
    • Ho Chi Minh in north
  • Set up election to unify the country
  • Election never happened
• Ho Chi Minh
  • "Uncle Ho"
  • Very wealthy
  • Communist
  • Asked for independence from France
    • They said no
  • Goes to SU in learning the art of revolution
  • Helps China become communist
• Escalation
  • US started small and got more and more into the war
  • Truman began US involvement by sending money to French
  • Eisenhower sent military advisers to give support to Diem's gov in south
  • Kennedy sent advisers and special operation forces (green berets)
  • Johnson sent more and more combat forces
  • Nixon promised to end the war by pulling troops out
    • But expanded the war bombing Louse and Cambodia
• Vietcong
  • Communist in the south that US was fighting
  • US enemy
  • Difficult to define them because of how they dressed
    • Dressed like peasants
• Guerilla Warfare
  • Attack and retreat
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
  • An American ship was attacked by north Vietnamese torpedoes
  • Congress passed in 1964
  • Congress giving permission to president to wage war
• President Lyndon Johnson
  • "We're don't need to get involved"
  • Didn't want to get involved in the war
    • At least that's what he told the people
• General William Westmoreland
  • Wanted more troops
• Tet Offensive
  • A huge offense that the Vietnamese put upon the US
  • Tet is a holiday and it happened on that day
  • Vietcong attacked cities
  • Negative battle for US
• Pentagon Papers
  • A leak to the New York Times
  • Top secret information was leaked to the US
  • Was published
  • People were negative towards the US government
• The Plumbers
  • Do what they had to do to stop the press leaks
• Operation Rolling Thunder
  • The code name for the non-stop bombing raids in North Vietnam by US
  • Purpose was to destroy the will of them to fight
  • Destroy industrial bases and air defenses
  • Was not successful
  • They never surrendered so US left
• Ho Chi Minh Trail 
• Anti-War
  • People were against war because:
    • Tet offense- US gov lied to people
    • Pentagon Papers- No trust in US gov
    • Killing innocent people
    • Supporting bad gov in south
    • The power of the press
    • Nixon promising to end war but just expanded it
• Agent Orange
  • A gas that was used to kill plants
  • Easier for the enemy to hide
• Napalm
  • A sticky fire substance
• My Lai Massacre
• Vietnam War Protesters
• Kent St. University Protest/Massacre
• President Richard Nixon
  • Mad about the leak
• Vietnamization
• Paris Peace Accords- 1973
• The French Connection
  • France gained control of Indochina in colonial wars

Other information

• McCarther was fired because he refused orders against truman

- My lai massacre, March 1968. us soldier killed 504. 120 kids between 2 and 7. women were raped.

- Kent State university, 1970: 5 students were killed and many others were wounded.

- Nixon promised to get the usa out of the war but didn't, expanded the war into laos and cambodia 

- vietnamization: gradually pull US troops out and train the ARVN to take our place fighting in the North

- Paris peace accords: 1973, january 27, fighting stopped, US would pull out of vietnam and north and south vietnam would recognize each other's independence.

- peace did not last, north invaded south

- video

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