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Unit 16 Continued: The Cold War in Asia

Unit 16 Continued: The Cold War in Asia. China Korea Vietnam & Cambodia. Policy of Containment in Asia. North Korea China Vietnam. Communism in Korea. 1945 Soviet Union & the U.S. agree to divide Korea at the 38 th Parallel

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Unit 16 Continued: The Cold War in Asia

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  1. Unit 16 Continued: The Cold War in Asia China Korea Vietnam & Cambodia

  2. Policy of Containment in Asia • North Korea • China • Vietnam

  3. Communism in Korea • 1945 Soviet Union & the U.S. agree to divide Korea at the 38th Parallel • 1950 Stalin breaks deal & North Korean troops invade South Korea • U.S. & United Nations troops go to fight • U.S. wanted to unify all of Korea

  4. Communism in Korea Continued • China freaks & sends hundreds of thousands soldiers to North Korea & kicks the U.S. out • 1953 peace agreement: Korea stays divided at the 38th Parallel

  5. Demilitarized Zone of Korea • Surrounds the 38th parallel • Millions of landmines & soldiers still guard both sides

  6. Communism in China • 1945 China was divided 1) Chiang Kai-shek & the Nationalist gov’t. 2) Mao Zedong & the Communist gov’t. • Support from peasants by promising land • 1949 Mao & the Communists win!!! • Nationalist gov’t fled to Taiwan

  7. The Chinese government (People’s republic of China) says Taiwan is part of China, NOT an independent nation. They refuse to allow Taiwan to be part of the United Nations

  8. Mao Zedong

  9. Mao’s Great Leap Forward: 1958-1960 • Increase farm & industrial output • Sounds like……. • Created “backyard” communes • Steel & other goods • 100% failure

  10. Mao’s Cultural Revolution: 1966 • Purge China of excesses • Red Guards • Teenagers who tried to experience revolution 1st hand by attacking anyone who was “bourgeois” • “Little Red Book”

  11. Communism in Vietnam • Vietnam = former French colony • Communist forces backed by the Soviet Union rise up & force the French out in 1954 Policy of Containment is failing!!! U.S. is worried about the Domino Theory

  12. Vietnam in 1954 after the French leave

  13. U.S. & the Vietnam War:1964-1974 • 1965 Communist guerrilla fighters from south Vietnam (Viet Cong) & north Vietnamese Communists close to unifying the country • U.S. President Lyndon Johnson sends in troops

  14. Communism in Vietnam Continued • End of 1960s Vietnam was a stalemate • American public divided over Vietnam • 1st war on t.v. so everyday citizens saw what it was like • 1973 U.S. President Richard Nixon signs Paris Peace Accords which ends the “conflict” • Within 2 years all of Vietnam is Communist

  15. Laos & Cambodia • After Vietnam both Laos & Cambodia fall to Communism • Pol Pot & the Khmer Rouge • Dictator & leader of Cambodia • Destroy all western influence • Murdered over a million Cambodians

  16. Pol Pot & his “Killing Fields”

  17. Grading the Policy of Containment • Overall was America’s Cold War Policy of Containment a success, a failure, or somewhere in between? Explain

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