Conflict Around the World

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Conflict Around the World
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Korea

• North Korea (Soviet backed) vs South Korea (US
  backed)
• 38th parallel crossed by the North
• Containment was being put to the test
• UN troops would push North forces back
• After 3 years, 4 million soldiers and civilians
  died
• Cease fire reestablished the 38th parallel

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Korean War
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Vietnam

• Japan surrenders in WWII
• Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh (communist nationalist)
  claims independence
• Formally a French colony, they want it back
• France invades Vietnam, no success
• IKEs Domino theory
• Geneva Accords
• Divided Vietnam into North and South
• Communist North vs Anti-Communist South

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Vietnam

• Ho Chi minh vs Ngo Dinh Diem
• Rise in Vietcong (Southern rebels, communist
  loyalists)
• US enters the War, China and USSR support
  Communist North and Vietcong
• Public Pressure and lack of success, US pulls out
  under Vietnamization, 1973 troops out.
• 1975 North takes over South

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Vietnam War
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Cambodia

• Khmer Rouge
• Brutal communist regime under Pol Pot
• Millions murdered
• In 1993, UN helped establish free elections

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Cuba

• Fidel Castro leads the revolution
• Bay of Pigs Invasion
• CIA backed - failed invasion
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Nikita Khrushchev vs JFK

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Cuba
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Nicaragua

• Daniel Ortega leads a communist revolution
  supported by initially by US and USSR.
• Started giving assistance to other Marxist rebels
• So, US began supporting contras (anti-communists)
  in Nicaragua
• Civil War weakened the nation led to free
  elections in 1990

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Nicaragua
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Iran

• US backed Shah (King) of Iran
• Pro Western
• Ayatollahs (Muslim clerics) opposed this
  relationship
• 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini led a revolution to
  overthrow the Shah
• War with Iraq
• Aided by USSR and US, to maintain balance in the
  region

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Shah Pahlavi vs Ayatollah Khomeini
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Afghanistan

• 1950s, Soviet influence threatened Afghan
  independence
• 1970s, Muslim revolt threatens Afghan Communist
  government
• 1979 Soviet Union invades
• Afghan rebel soldiers equipped and trained by the
  US
• 1989 Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev withdraws
  troops

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Taliban and Mujahideen Fighters