1. TOP TEN THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
Proxy Wars
TOP TEN THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

2. 1
What does it mean?
To use a conflict in another region as a substitute for fighting each other
Due to balance of power/nuclear deterrence (next video)

3. Korea – How it all started2
Korea – How it all started
After WWII divided 38th parallel (Soviet/US spheres of influence)
1950 – Communist north invades south - attempt to reunify
US – Truman Doctrine = need to get involved (no appeasement)
UN – Peacemaking (Canada joins in)
USSR boycott = no veto

4. 3 Korea – “It’s on!” MacArthur pushed communists out of south
Gets fiesty and keeps going towards China
= new country involved – prolong war
*request to use nukes!

5. Korea – the sort of ending4
Korea – the sort of ending
1953 – armistice signed
Not a peace agreement = conflict still on
Back to 38th parallel
Demilitarized zone still occupied by US troops
North Korea – hermit kingdom
Notice USSR did not get involved (US thought they were behind it)

6. Vietnam – how it all began5
Vietnam – how it all began
Divided after WWII
Communist rebels in north want reunification
China communist revolution – Eisenhower: Domino Theory (US must get involved)

7. Vietnam – “It just keeps getting worse and worse”6
1956 UN monitored elections canceled
Viet Cong under Ho Chi Minh use sabotage and terrorism
US troops increase dramatically
Use of Napalm, Agent Orange
Nixon – Vietnamization (doesn’t really work)
Carpet bombing (war spreads to neighboring countries like Cambodia)
1973 flee country
1975 Communists take over Saigon – Ho Chi Minh City

8. Vietnam – the terrible outcome7
Vietnam – the terrible outcome
Millions dead, environmental outcome
US disillusionment – no longer the blessed nation
News coverage - atrocities
Lost war
Draft = soldiers forced to war, PTSD, drug addiction
Notice USSR did not get involved (US thought they were behind it)

10. Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up
Born in the U.S.A.
Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man
Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me"
Went down to see my V.A. man
He said "Son, don't you understand"
I had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone
He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now
Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go

12. Afghanistan – Soviet’s Vietnam begins8
Constant coups = Soviets feel need to enforce some stability in region, expand their sphere of influence
Christmas day 1979 “Invited” to help establish new government
Afghans rebel
Terrible atrocities
Refugee crisis

13. Afghanistan – the prolonged struggle9
Afghanistan – the prolonged struggle
Mujahedeen fighters can’t fight military might of Soviets
US covert involvement
Training and weapons
Famous mujahedeen fighter – Osama Bin Laden
Cost of fighting prolonged war leads to Soviet withdrawal 1989
Olympics

14. Afghanistan – pay attention to history people!10
Afghanistan – pay attention to history people!
Many have tried and failed to take over Afghanistan – Alexander the Great (partial take over) to Britain to USSR to America.
Lack of stability in the region opens the door to groups like Taliban to take over
Support for Islamic fundamentalist terror groups like Al Qaeda (thus leading to War on Terror)