World History
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TheColdWarPartTwoSpring22.pptxI. Origins of American War in Vietnam
19th Century: French Indochina, spawns underground independence movements
World War II: occupied by Japanese; U.S. works with Ho Chi Minh’s forces, the Viet Minh
1945-1954: French return, install puppet government, U.S. sends millions
American Escalation
1954: Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Geneva Conference, temporary boundary at 17th parallel, national elections in 1956
U.S. intervenes; installs Ngo Dinh Diem in South
Diem: Catholic, residing in New Jersey
Viet Minh form NLF or Vietcong; wage war against Diem regime
Buddhists rebel: protest, self-immolation
1963: Diem overthrown and killed by CIA
1964-1970:Frustration and Defeat
By 1967: 500,000 American troops in Vietnam; 2 billion dollars a month; escalation of bombing
1968: U.S. Government, “Victory in sight”
1968: Tet Offensive; U.S. caught in lie
My Lai massacre in 1968
Growing protests at home; President Johnson declines re-election bid
Nixon and the “Secret Plan”
1970—Kent State and Jackson State shootings
War Ends
1970-1971: U.S. and North Vietnam meet in Paris
Jan 1973: Paris Peace Accords: ceasefire; U.S. withdrawal; Nixon ends draft
“Peace With Honor”
1975: U.S. withdraws, war of unification
II. Era of Detente
Sparked by Defeat in Vietnam; questioning of containment
1970s-1990s: Era of Détente
Nixon opens relations with China; first president to visit Soviet Union
1972: Signed SALT treaty: froze number of nuclear missiles; Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
From containment to “peaceful coexistence”
Roles of Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev
III. Cold War Ends
Late 1980s: protest movements in Eastern Europe
1989: Berlin Wall falls; Germany reunified in 1990
Social and Economic Crises in Soviet Union: shortages, corruption, apathy
Glasnost and Perestroika
1991 Crisis: coup attempts on Gorbachev, emergence of Boris Yeltsin
Gorbachev resigns
December 25, 1991
IV. Or Does It?
Communist states as Rivals: China, Cuba
Conflicts in Iraq: 1991 and 2003
Conflict in Afghanistan
Ongoing conflict with Russia in 21st Century
