US conflicts in SEA

1950 Korean War Important Figures Joseph Stalin Kim Il-Sung Harry Truman

Why did America fight the Korean War? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t44SbOyjEUM

1953 Armistice signed, DMZ Created Today: Kim Jong Un rules North Korea with an iron fist, and is the most egocentric ruler on earth.

Death Count North Korean/Allies: USA/Allies: 315,000 1.1 million Civilians of Korea Over 2 million

Vietnam War How did it begin? We helped create it. We tried to help the French take it back. The Cold War Gulf of Tonkin incident.

Vietnam War Simplified https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoXySB-WlZE

We just won WWII. How could we lose against the Vietnamese army? Guerilla Warfare Strong Nationalist Feelings We wouldn’t do what it would take to win. T.V.

Cambodia

Pol Pot - Cambodia After Vietnam ends the communists take over. One general in particular takes over the country of Cambodia… He is one of the worst humans in history and his name is Pol Pot.                                                 

Pol Pot Lets throw out the history books and start over!!

Pol Pot - Cambodia

The name Khmer Rouge, which means "Red Khmers," was given to a left-wing Cambodian faction in the 1950s. Led by Pol Pot, it gained control of Cambodia in 1975. Then began one of the century's greatest massacres.

Genocide is what Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge party did in the latter half of the 1970s Among the first evidence of the horror, this "killing field" was uncovered in 1980. The death toll: Over 2 million

Phnom Penh High School                                                                                                                    

One of the worst groups to massacre was the Khmer Rouge secret police They turned Phnom Penh high school into its headquarters, renamed S-21. Thousands were tortured and executed in former classrooms.

Thousands of pictures of Khmer Rouge victims hang on its walls The school has now been refashioned into the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide. Thousands of pictures of Khmer Rouge victims hang on its walls People were duly photographed, then tortured and killed. Tuol Sleng means “Hill on the poisonous trees”

Pol Pot declared "Year Zero" and began a radical program to create an idealized agrarian communist society. He crushed social institutions such as banking and religion and emptied cities of their inhabitants.

Intellectuals and anyone else seen as standing in the way of the new social order were mercilessly killed. Many of those who escaped execution died from overwork and starvation.

The Khmer Rouge was ousted from power by a Vietnamese invasion in 1979.

Cambodia – Khmer rouge - 1979 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4CPwoBkgZA Cambodia - Killing Fields and Angkor Wat 8:33 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9T5iGMjzok The Cambodian Genocide 4:00