Monday and Tuesday- started civil rights presentation
Wednesday and Thursday- presentations
- Iraq War-
- The war was unpopular
- Went to war becasue we thought Iraq had weapons of mass destruction
- Saddam Hussein had 90 minutes to leave Iraq
- We invaded Iraq in March 2003
- US, British, and other coalition forces quickly overwhelmed the Iraqi Army
- US soldiers found Saddam Hussein in a secen foot hole near Tikrit
- Weapons of mass destruction mistaken
- Election held in Iraq in October, 2005, giving Shia the majority control of the government
- Began trial in October 2005 for crimes against his people and mass killings
- Sentenced to death on November 5, 2006 and was hanged
- US troops fight militants
- Barack Obama planed to remove some troops from Iraq by August 2010
- Obama announces all troops will return from Iraq by the end of 2011
- 9/11
- Al-Qaeda was responsible
- Not big enough
- Patriotism
- Concerts and performances
- 2,996 died, 6,000 wounded
- American Airlines Flight 11 8:49 am- North
- United Airlines Flight 175 9:03 am- South building
- Flight 93- field in Pennsylvania
- Patriot Act
- October 26, 2001
- Uniting and strengthening America by providing appropriate tools required to intercept and obstruct terrorism
- Impact it had on the US
- Onging Wars
- Afghanistan
- Iraq
- Immigration and deportation
- 200,000 deportations
- 2009-2010 400,000
- The "Friendly-ish" skies
- full body scans
- No ID back then
- 4 inch knife
- Onging Wars
- Afghan War
- Started because of 9/11
- 2nd longest war
- Three phases
- Taliban
- Rebuild core institutions
- Troop presure
- What Bush Did
- 2 months after he put troops in action
- He wanted to crush the capital
- Great Britain, Canada, Austarlia, France, and Germany
- 40 other countries
- What Obama did
- Vowned to end the war
- The war continued all eight years he was in office
- He put together a team to kill Osama Bin Laden
- Airstrikes and Raids
- More threats
- He lowered how many troops
- Got the country out of "war"
- What Trump did
- Increase the troops in Afghanistan
- Taliban and other terrorist groups
- Find a solution
- Wants total victory
- Islamic State of Iraq and Syria(ISIS)
- Started in 2004
- Started as part of Al Qaeda- more extreme
- A terrorist group
- Radical anti-western militant group
- Wanted to establish an independent Islamic state
- ISIS Flag
- "There is no God but Allah. Mohammad is the messenger of God."
- Fighting for and what they did
- To make Allah's word supreme in the world
- Restore the power of Islam
- 143 attacks
- 29 countries
- 2,043 killed
- One Group, Many Names
- ISIL: Islamic State of Iraq
- IS: Islamic State
- Daesh: Islamic State in Iraq and Syria
- Popularity
- ISIS became recognized around the world for carrying out acts of violece
- public executions
- rape
- beheadings
- crucifixions
- ISIS videotaped brutal killings and posted them or streamed them live online
- In 2014, a group of ISIS militants beheaded US journalist James Foley and posted it on YouTube
- In February 2015, ISIS released footage of a Jordanian military pilot being burned alive in a cage
- ISIS became recognized around the world for carrying out acts of violece
- Obama's Fight
- The US started airstrikes against ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria.
- The Pentagon announced they were traingin Syrian rebels to combat against ISIS- this program failed after only getting 150 recruits
- Operation Inherent resolve- working with countries fighting ISIS on their land
- Trump's Fight
- Followed through plans that were made while Ovama was in office
- Cut ISIS forces down to 3,000 left in Iraq and Syria
- Current ISIS
- ISIS is now weakened both militarily and financially
- The group lost control of large amounts of territory in Iraq
- Several leaders were captured or killed
Friday- Vietnam and Korean War presentation
- Korea after WW2
- Japanese rule ends
- Korea is split
- Soviet Russia takes over the north and becomes communist
- America takes over the South and becomes democratic
- The start of the war
- On June 25 1950, 75,000 North Korean soldiers cross the 38 parallel kicking off the Korean war.
- By July the US has enterend the war
- Not a war
- North Korea overewhelmed the south and the US entered and got Korea out of teh way
- Chinese get involved and pushed back
- Stalemate
- Both sides were willing to call a ceasefire
- Both were willing to have a demilitarized zone
- The US didn't want to give back POWs
- Korean Armistice Agreement
- Peace talks began in 1951
- The talks were to release POWs
- In 1953 the armistice was signed
- South Korea did not sign
- Modern Day
- Things have been tense in Korea since the end of the war
- In 2006, North Korea got nuclear weapons
- In the past months North Korea has been making promises
- On April 26th 2018, North and South Korean leaders met for the first time
- Both sides are working towards officially ending the war
- Korean Imapct on the US
- Casualties
- 2.5 million were killed or wounded
- 40,000 US solders died
- Economically
- not affected
- Positioned as one of the largest powers
- Massive economic benefit for America
- US has forced the SOuth Korean people to buy their products at extremely high prices
- The Korean war led the United States to earn money and do business through establishing bases in neighbor countries
- Politically
- Almost total control over South Korean international politics
- South Korea was like a puppet state of the US
- Militarily
- gave America a very importatn military presence in Asia
- the Korea Army buys huge amounts of US-made weapons
- Formidable force, large in size, very well equiped
- Training and technology was better
- Casualties
- Vietnam after ww2
- Ho Chi Minh declares freedom 1945
- Divided in half at the 16th parallel
- Seeks to be accepted but Truman ignores him
- SEATO
- Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
- February 19,1965
- Created to block further communist gains in southeast Asia
- Ceased operations June 30, 1977
- Early Stages of war
- Universal militarizm is imposed on the peole
- 1961, 400 green berets- high ranking personal that are trained to fight people(army equivalent of naval seals)
- 20,000 viet cong attack- very successful- southern communists
- Estimated numbers 25,000 total
- 1962 bombing starts
- The Jungle war
- Operation flaming dart
- Operation rolling thunder begins
- July 28th 1968, US troops grow to 500,000
- Battle of the khe sanh- jan 21 to april 1 1968
- 955 north killed 155 marines killed 450 wounded
- Operation flaming dart
- put into action by Lyndon B Johnson
- 1965 viet cong attack multiple US bases
- Operation rolling thunder
- Sustained aerial bombardment
- Four Goals:
- boost south vietnam moral
- stop viet cong
- destroy norhtern transportation
- halt flow of men into the south
- Cold war restraints made it hard to achieve these
- Most intense air battle of the cold war
- Hardest since 1944 Germany
- US pulls out
- Operation Dewey canyon last operation
- Troops reach 543,000 men
- Nixon pulled l out 25,000 men in 1969- called it Vietnamization
- 1972 troop count down to 25,000
- Operation Dewey canyon
- Sweep of the people's army
- Based off of intelligence and captured documents
- Tactical success
- 130 marines killed
- 1,619 viet cong killed
- 500 tons of amunition was taken
- How the Vietnam War impacted the US
- Lasted 20 years
- Took away more than 2 million lives
- Hundreds of thousands of children left without parents
- 200,000 to 400,000 of people died on sea
- The war ruined both North and South Vietnam
- US air forces dropped around 8 million bombs in vietnam
- In the south the US used around 20 million gallons of herbicides from 1962 to 1971
- Anti-War
- Why were so many people against the war?
- Tet Offensive
- Pentagon Papers- classified documents were released- said the government had not been telling the whole truth about the war
- Injuring/killing innocent people(My Lai Massacre)
- Why were so many people against the war?
- Persion Gulf War
- Causes:
- the biggist cause was the Iraq- Iran war
- Saddam attacked because was faced with a potentially severe economic criseis following the Iran war
- 1973 oil crises
- Who Won:
- US won with ease in 42 days
- US took over in no time
- Effect:
- Helped the US economy
- Allowed the United Nations to inspect to monitor Iraq for evidence of nuclear weapons
- Saddam Hussein
- When he took over he did a few good things:
- Modernixed the infrastucture
- Improved health care
- Was still a ruthless leader
- When he took over he did a few good things:
- Causes:
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