Cold War Events Berlin, Korea, Vietnam

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Cold War EventsBerlin, Korea, Vietnam Cuba

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• World Studies

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Partition of Germany

• Suggested at Potsdam and ratified at Yalta
• Four Zones
• Russia
• Britain
• US
• France
• Berlin would also be sliced up into four parts
  with Western access across the Russian zone.

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Germany Cont

• Economy directed to agriculture and peaceful
  industries
• Was to be thoroughly disarmed
• Schools were set up to encourage democratic ideas
• Denazification

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Berlin Blockade

• Stalin wanted Western forces out of Berlin
• He blocked all surface routes
• Only way he could prevent the airlift was by
  shooting the aircraft down
• Stalin feared all-out war and eventually gave up
  on the blockade

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Berlin Wall

• Construction began on Sunday, August 13, 1961
• Became the bold symbol of the Cold War and the
  Iron Curtain

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Korea 1945

• Japanese colony since 1910
• Then in 1945 it was divided at the 38th parallel
• Russia in the North America in the South
• Russia defied the UN attempt to hold free
  elections
• North Communist Kim Il-Sung
• South Anti-Communist Syngman Rhee

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Aggression in Korea

• June 1950 North Korean Communist forces crossed
  the 38th parallel
• UN reacted with American and South Korean forces
  Gen. Douglas MacArthur

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Major Points of the War

• June 28th Seoul captured
• Pusan Perimeter
• Inchon Landing
• Back to Seoul
• Back across the 38th to the Yalu River
• Chinese assistance back across the 38th to Seoul
  yet again
• Then back the 38th for a stalemate

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Korea Since the War

• Still divided today
• US interest and troops remain to this day
• 1993 Korea withdraws from the Nuclear
  Nonproliferation Treaty
• 1972 2000 talks of unification failed

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Vietnam
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Vietnam Background

• Mid 1800s became a French colony
• During WWII Japan occupied the region and after
  the war and the Japanese withdraw the French
  tried to regain their territory and failed
• The Geneva Conference of 1954 divided Vietnam at
  the 17th Parallel pending monitored elections to
  unite the nation by 1956

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Vietnam Cont

• Communist North led by Ho Chi Minh began to
  increase military strength, eliminate free
  enterprise, and receive aid from Soviets and
  China
• Anti-Communist South rejected plans for a unified
  nation
• In response the North began guerrilla warfare
  throughout the South

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Vietnam Cont
US Military Advisors

• Saigon requests American aid so the US begins to
  send military advisors in 1954 fearing that other
  nations would fall to Communism. (Domino Theory)

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Escalation of US Troops
65-25,000 68-536,000
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Vietnam Cont

• Paris Peace Agreement (1973)
• US withdraws troops receives POWs
• All foreign troops withdrawn form Laos and
  Cambodia
• Reunification of Vietnam by peaceful means

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Current Day Vietnam

• Officially united as a communist state on July 2,
  1976
• Vietnam has experienced very little economic
  growth
• Headed by Tran Duc Luong
• Buddhism, Christianity (Mainly Roman Catholic)

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Cuba
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Background

• Spanish colony until 1898 then the US occupied
  Cuba
• Independence was granted to Cuba in 1902 but
  limited due to the Platt Amendment

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The Overthrow

• The 26th of July Movement in 1959 Fidel Castro
  overthrew the corrupt dictator Fulgencio Batista
• Once in power Fidel forbade elections, civil
  liberties, cut relations with the US and made
  agreements with Communist nations

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Major Events

• Bay of Pigs (1961) The US trained Cuban exiles
  to launch an invasion into Cuba to overthrow
  Castro
• Was modeled after a similar event in Guatemala

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Major Events Cont

• Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) Pres. Kennedy
  revealed that the Soviets were installing missile
  and bomber bases in Cuba
• Kennedy issued quarantine and demanded the
  Soviets to withdraw missiles
• After and few days of tension Khrushchev removed
  the missiles

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Cuba Today

• Cubas economy was hurt in the 80s due to the
  fall of Communism. The country relied on aid
  from the Soviet Union
• Cuba was worsened when the US imposed further
  trade sanctions in 1992 and again in 1996
• To this day civil liberties are suppressed in Cuba

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