1. Agenda Warm Up: Quick Candy Review Discussion: Cold War Happenings
3. Vietnam Videos
4. SOL Review
HW: Finish SOL Reviews

2. SOL Quick Review
1. I believe in indulgences. 2. We were the Gunpowder empires (3). 3. I posted the 95 Theses in an effort to protest injustices. 4. I created the printing press. 5. I was the major land based trade route from China to Europe. 6. One of my major beliefs involves Predestination. 7. This is what happened to the indigenous peoples of the Americas when European explorers showed up. 8. This was the most traded item coming out of Africa during the s. 9. We are the reasons European explorers travelled to the new world. (3) 10. I left the Church to gain an annulment, and control religion in England.

3. Cold War China, Vietnam and New Policies

4. China goes Communist 1949 China torn between communism and capitalism
Chiang Kai-shek: Capitalist/democracy
Mao Zedong: Communist
Civil War and communists win
Soviet Union supports Mao
Mao Zedong fights US in Korean War

5. Cold War Changes
1953: Stalin dies, Nikita Khrushchev new Soviet leader
1953: Eisenhower elected President in US
Khrushchev: “History is on our side, we will bury you.”
Eisenhower: “New look for containment”
Massive Retaliation

7. Vietnam War 1955-1975 French Imperial colony
Rats
French Imperial colony
Divides into North and South
North: Communist
South: Capitalist/democracy
Viet Cong: Communist Guerilla army living in south
Ho Chi Minh: Leader of North Vietnam
Led revolution against French (1950)
Inspired decolonization around world

8. Vietnam War 1965 US puts troops into Vietnam Soviets never enter war
1968: Tet Offensive-Turning point in favor of communist N. Vietnam
US leaves in 1973
Fall of Saigon- North Wins

9. Effects of Vietnam Vietnam unified under communism
US loses first major fight for containment
Western world loses WWII fighting spirit
Era of détente begins.
Less aggression felt across the world towards the United States.