1. Terms: Korean War Vietnam War Domino theory Brinkmanship
CH. 26 SECT. 4 “COLD WAR CONFLICTS”
Terms:
Korean War
Vietnam War
Domino theory
Brinkmanship

2. COLD WAR CONFLICTS: KOREA, VIETNAM, CUBA

4. 1945 Japan surrenders Korea after WW2
Soviets in charge in North, US in South
Industrial North (communist) and Rural South (non-communist)

5. Containment vs. Brinkmanship
Containment Policy (Pres. Truman): 1949
US Proposal for dealing with the Soviet Union
Brinkmanship Policy (Pres. Eisenhower): 1953
Eisenhower becomes US president -1953
US secretary of state John Foster Dulles – begins policy of “brinkmanship”.

6. Containment 1949 vs. Brinkmanship 1953
“The communist government will break down if we contain it”. (example: Korean War)
1953
If the USSR or its supporters attack US interests, the US would be willing to go to the edge or “brink” of war with the USSR. (example: Cuban Missile Crisis & Vietnam War)

7. 1950
Causes Truman to agree that the Soviets are trying to take over and spread communism
Idea that can’t just contain them any more but must roll them back

8. 1950
Korean war begins
North (communist) invaded the south (non-communist)

9. 1950 UN ordered troops to help South Korea US sends forces to SK too
Chinese felt threatened when American troops were near border – sent 300,000 soldiers to help North Korea

11. Cold War Conflicts: Korean War 1950-1953
Neither side gained an advantage in the 3 year war
July 1953 – UN forces and North Korea signed a cease-fire agreement.
Both North Korea and South Korea remain divided today
North Korea – remains communist
South Korea – 1987 adopted a democratic constitution and held free elections

13. Cold War Conflicts Who won the Korean War? USSR and North Korea
China and North Korea
U.S. and South Korea
Nobody won the war

14. Terms: Korean War: Top 10 North Korea Facts Video
CH. 26 SECT. 4 “COLD WAR CONFLICTS”
Terms:
Korean War:
Top 10
North Korea
Facts Video

16. Cold War Conflict #2 : Vietnam
Vietnam = French colony never under one solidified gov’t before
1945 Japanese withdraw from Vietnam – French want their colony back…

17. Terms: Vietnam War Domino theory Brinkmanship
CH. 26 SECT. 4 “COLD WAR CONFLICTS”
Terms:
Vietnam War
Domino theory
Brinkmanship

18. US/USSR struggle for power: Vietnam
US supports France through funds because Vietnam’s revolutionary leader of the Nationalist group, the Vietminh, was Ho Chi Minh, a communist!

19. Communist & Nationalist Revolutionary

20. 1954 groups of Vietnamese succeeded in defeating the French
A Divided Vietnam…
1954 groups of Vietnamese succeeded in defeating the French
The Geneva Conference divides Vietnam in two with US supporting the South and the USSR supporting the North
Vietnam is divided at the 17th parallel

22. Domino Theory- explains US involvement in Vietnam
“You have a row of dominoes set up, and you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly”
Pres. Eisenhower explaining why the US needed to stop the Communists in Vietnam

23. South Vietnam gets US support…
US pours a lot of money into effort and sends advisors to help police and military in S. Vietnam become more effective
By 1963 US loses confidence in leader of S. Vietnam (Ngo Dinh Diem) and so, the US supports a military coup

24. US Escalates Involvement in War
By 1965 – 15, US advisors
Have to increase effort to win
US ships attacked by N.Vietnamese ships
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution –US escalates involvement in Vietnam
begin with bombing, air force, bases, Marines, more military to fight the VIETCONG (communist guerillas)

26. The End of the Vietnam War 8/15/1973
U.S. military involvement ended on 15 August 1973
The capture of Saigon by the Vietnam People's Army in April 1975 marked the end of the war
North and South Vietnam were reunified the following year.

27. The Fall of Saigon

28. Post War Vietnam Vietnam is still governed by Communists today.
The country now welcomes foreign investment - much of these investments come from the US.
As of December, 2007, Vietnam had established diplomatic relations with 172 countries (including the United States, which normalized relations in 1995).
President Truong Tan Sang

30. J The Vietnam War Cold War Conflicts Who won the War in Vietnam?
The Viet Cong with Soviet and Chinese Support
The South Vietnamese Army with U.S.support
Nobody won the war.
The Viet Cong with Soviet support only

32. Latin America - CUBA
Revolutionary Movements in Cuba found support from the USSR – communist rebels led by Castro
US – supported anti-communist dictators – Batista
Communist rebel leader,
Fidel Castro overthrows
Batista in 1959!

33. Castro soon made Cuba a SOVIET ALLY!
CUBA & USSR
Castro soon made Cuba a SOVIET ALLY!

34. The US made efforts to remove Castro from power, including a FAILED invasion of Cuba at the
Bay of Pigs in 1961.
Bay of Pigs

35. Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
Soviets building nuclear missile bases in Cuba
US- demanded Soviets remove missiles
US blockaded Cuba

37. Fearful time – “Brinkmanship” on the brink of nuclear war?
Cuban Missile Crisis
October 16-28th 1962
Fearful time – “Brinkmanship” on the brink of nuclear war?
US troops in Florida ready to attack
US/USSR negotiations ends the crisis

39. K The Cuban Missile Crisis
Cold War Conflicts
K The Cuban Missile Crisis
The United States tried to remove Castro from Cuban leadership but failed to invade the island
at the Bay of Pigs in 1961
at the Gulf of Tonkin in 1961
at the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1961
at the Gulf of Mexico in 1961

40. What problems were common to newly independent countries of the post WWII era?

41. Decolonization of the Belgian Congo
Patrice Lumumba became the first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo – 6/30/1960
Video
Democracy Now video

42. What problems were common to newly independent countries of the post WWII era?

43. Cold War Conflicts Middle East, Africa L
Why did the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) carry out a covert action to overthrow the government of Iran in 1953?
Because Iran as developing a nuclear weapon
Because Iran had seized the Suez Canal
Because the USSR had sponsored a coup in Iran the previous year
Because they feared Iran might become a Soviet ally