1. Cold War in East and SE Asia
Korea
Vietnam
Cambodia

2. Korean War 38th Parallel = division of Koreas
U.S. and USSR influenced region
General Douglas MacArthur led UN troops to aid South Korea
Continuous struggle for Peninsula
July 1953 = cease-fire agreement b/w North Korea and UN forces
Approximately 5 million people died

3. KOREA

4. Korea had been a Japanese colony since 1910.
The Soviets occupied the Northern half during their brief involvement in the Pacific war.
The U.S. occupied the South.
As in Germany, the US and USSR could not agree on a unification plan
Korea was partitioned at the 38th parallel into North and South

5. NORTH KOREA
After the war, a COMMUNIST STATE was put in place by the Soviets
It was headed by Kim Il Sung.

6. SOUTH KOREA Capitalist Democracy
Headed by Syngman Rhee, elected by a United Nations-monitored election

7. KOREAN WAR
North Korean forces crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded the South (1950)
The U.N. Security Council recommended military action to help South Korea.
U.N. forces (consisting mostly of U.S. and South Korea with small contingents from other nations) attempted to drive back the North Koreans and unite Korea as a capitalist democracy.

8. U.S. pushes deep into North
North Korean forces could not handle U.S. and U.N. advance (touched Chinese border)
Chinese Communist forces helped and U.S. was driven back to 38th parallel, where fighting remained
MacArthur wanted to attack deep into China (and use H-bomb)
Truman said no—it could create “Hot War” in Europe with the Soviets.

9. 1953 TRUCE After 3 years of fighting, border stayed at 38 latitude
established a three-mile-wide demilitarized zone (DMZ). In fact, the border between the Korea’s became a highly militarized area where each side faced the other down on a daily basis.
Over the years, small scale fighting resulted in the deaths of over one thousand Koreans and forty-nine Americans. There were numerous efforts at infiltration, espionage, and provocation.
The North Korean capture in 1968 of an intelligence-gathering ship, the U.S.S. Pueblo, and the murder of two American soldiers in 1976 as they attempted to cut down a tree in the DMZ heightened tensions nearly to the point of war.

10. Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh led nationalists and communists vs. France (loss at Dien Bien Phu)
1954 – Geneva Accords divided Vietnam at 17⁰ north latitude with agreement to have elections 1 year later to reunify
Diem = corrupt, U.S. coup and bombing
Fearing communist victory, Diem cancelled elections >> No. Vietnamese forces invaded
North (DRV) >> Ho Chi Minh and Viet Minh
South (RVN) >> ARVN fighting against NLF and the Vietcong
Fall of Saigon >> Communists took over South after Vietnamization in 1975

11. Cambodia