The Communist WarsCold War, Korean War Vietnam War

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Soviet Union quickly abandoned its Cold War commitments as the state and Communist Party rule unraveled.. Events of WarSouth Korea in 1950, capturi

The Communist Cold War, Korean War &

Wars-Vietnam War

 The Cold War- No, it was not a very “cold” war! 

Cold War Ideologies

 Wanted to use raw materials to rebuild economy

 Wanted to control Eastern Europe

 Keep Germany divided

Senator Joseph McCarthy

Events of Cold War

 Berlin Wall created

 NATO/ Warsaw Pact

 SEATO

 Nuclear wars/ “Arms Race”

 “Space Race”

 Truman Doctrine

Events of the Cold War cont’d

Sputnik- October 4, 1957 (first satellite put into space)

During the 1950s, the Third World emerged as key arena of Cold War competition The May 1954 Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the final battle

in the First Indochina War between France and pro-independence

nationalists, but laid the groundwork for U.S involvement in the region

JULY 24, 1959

Brezhnev and Nixon talk during Brezhnev's June 1973 visit to Washington—a high-water mark in détente between the United States and the Soviet Union

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Soviet Union quickly abandoned its Cold War commitments as the state and Communist Party rule

unraveled By late 1991, opposition to Gorbachev's radical reforms had triggered the Soviet coup attempt of 1991, but the failure of the coup wound up accelerating the dissolution of the USSR Above, Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin spar over the events of the coup, with Yeltsin accusing Gorbachev of failing to prevent the crisis Later, Gorbachev would

accuse Yeltsin of tearing the Soviet Union apart out of a desire to

KOREAN

WAR

Events of War

South Korea in 1950, capturing the capital, Seoul

MacArthur

war

General Douglas MacArthur

In October 1950, after routing North Korean soldiers from the southern half of the Korea Peninsula, United States general Douglas MacArthur sent troops across the 38th parallel into North Korea In November Chinese troops entered the Korean War on the side of the North, and by early December North Korea was cleared of

Outcome/Legacy of the Korean

War

 Both countries remained divided

 5 million died in process

 North Korea built collective farms and nuclear weapons, yet suffer economically and socially

 South Korea prospered with massive aid from the US and grew tremendously economically

In July 1953 North Korea and China, allies in the Korean War, signed a truce agreement at Panmunjeom (P’anmunjŏm) with the United Nations command that had supported South Korea The agreement ended fighting on the Korea Peninsula, but a permanent peace settlement between South Korea and North

VIETNAM

WAR

Vietnam War

 Background

 Once a French colony

 Main cause of the war- failure of Vietnamese nationalists to gain control of southern

Vietnam after their struggle with France

(1946- 1954)

 Ho Chi Minh

 “Charlie”- Vietcong

Events of Vietnam War

 A Divided Country

 Ngo Dinh Diem- South

 Ho Chi Minh- North

 U.S deployed large numbers of troops to South Vietnam between 1954 and 1973

 Ho Chi Minh Trail

 Guerilla warfare

 TET Offensive

 War finally concluded on April 30, 1975 with the fall of Saigon

President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster

The Ho Chi Minh Trail running

through Laos, 1967

A U.S B-66 Destroyer and four F-105

Thunderchiefs dropping

bombs on North Vietnam

Le Duc Tho and Henry Kissinger (fourth and fifth from the left,

respectively) Le Duc Tho and Henry Kissinger were jointly awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts in negotiating the Paris Peace Accords — a ceasefire and American withdrawal from Vietnam

National Chief of Police Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes an NFL officer in Saigon during TET Images of the killing shocked the

Kim Phuc Phan Thi, center, running down a road near Trang Bang,

Vietnam, after a napalm bomb was dropped on the village of Trang

Bang by a plane of the Vietnam Air Force The village was suspected by

US Army forces of being a Viet Cong stronghold Kim Phuc survived

Reaction of US Home Front

 First war televised where everyone could see events unfold

 Americans were outraged by war and results of it

 Booing soldiers upon return

Outcome/Legacy of the Vietnam

War

 Vietnam became united under communist rule

 In 1972, the United States signed a strategic arms

limitation treaty with the Soviet Union

 Vietnam was of little economic value to any country

 Media released the power they possess with showing information to the public

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