1. Warm-Up 5/26 Read the text provided “No Tears for Mao”
Answer the following:
Based on what you learned last Friday, why might Niu-Niu’s family have been targeted?
How are the actions of the Red Guards in this case representative of the larger Cultural Revolution?

2. Agenda 5/26 Warm Up Mao Reading Video Segments (for review)
The War in Korea and Vietnam
In-Class Reading
Finish “Thirteen Days”

3. Assignment #49: Korea and Vietnam Notes

4. Korea After WWII End of WWII – Korea divided at the 38th parallel
North = Communist, industrial (Soviet)
South = non-Communist, rural (U.S.)
By 1949, most U.S. and Soviet troops had withdrawn
Soviets decide to help North Korea take over the peninsula…

5. Map of Korea

6. North Korea vs. UN June 25, 1950, North Korea invades South Korea
Truman vows to help South Korea resist the Communists
South Korea asks UN for help
15 nations send help to S. Korea led by Douglas MacArthur
By Sept. 1950, N. Korea controls all of the peninsula but MacArthur launches surprise attack; pushes them back to 38th parallel

7. Here Comes China
Chinese feel threatened with U.S. so close to their coast – send 300K troops to help N. Korea
Jan – all UN and S. Korea troops are pushed back down
Chinese capture Seoul
MacArthur wants Truman to bomb China -- Truman says “you’re fired”
Cease-fire in July 1953 right where they started…5 mil dead

8. Post-War Korea Remains divided North Korea = Communist
Now led by Kim Jong Il
Nuclear weapon development
South Korea = Supported by U.S.
Democratic elections
Prosperous
U.S. still has troops in Korea

9. Vietnam Background
Led by Communist Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam fights for independence in 1930s and 1940s
Vietnam was a French colony that was invaded by the Japanese during WWII
After WWII, France wants to regain its colony, but Vietnamese Nationalists and Communists have another idea

10. French War in Vietnam
French fight Vietnamese to regain control of their colony
Vietminh (led by Ho Chi Minh) control countryside; French relegated to cities
French surrender in 1954 and the U.S. steps in

11. Why does the U.S. get involved?
Truman’s policy of containment – American policy of resisting further expansion of Communism around the world
Eisenhower’s domino theory – belief that if one country falls to Communism, neighboring countries would fall

12. Vietnam is Divided Like Korea, Vietnam is divided North = Communist
Military forces gain strength
Popular policy of land redistribution
South = Anti-Communist led by Ngo Dinh Diem
Corrupt
Leads to the rise of Vietcong forces in the South
U.S. supports a coup to get rid of Diem 1963

13. U.S. War in Vietnam
Threat of Communist takeover of all of Vietnam is real – U.S. steps up involvement
By late 1965, 185K American troops in Vietnam (without formal declaration of war)
By 1968 – half a million American soldiers
Two major hardships:
Guerilla warfare
Unpopular South Vietnamese government

14. U.S. Withdrawal Nixon begins withdrawal in 1969
Vietnamization – gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops while S. Vietnamese increase role in combat
Last forces out in 1973
N. Vietnamese Communists take over