The Korean War

The Cold War gets HOT

Following Wor ld War II, the Allies divided Korea at the 38th par allel Soviets controlled Nor th Korea; U.S. sets up a democr acy in South Korea Both gover nments claimed to control all of Korea

The Korean War

A Police Action (1950-1953)

Kim Il-Sung
Leader of North Korea

If one country falls to communism, others around it will fall as well

Domino Theory

Syngman Rhee
President of South Korea

The Korean War

The Cold War gets HOT
On J une 25, 1950, Nor th Korea invades South Korea UN forces under Macar thur come to the aid of South Korea Communist forces push UN forces to br ink of defeat UN forces push Nor th Koreans back to bor der of China

China enters the war

The Korean War

Nor th Koreans pushed back to bor der with China Chinese enter war on the side of Nor th Koreans Macar thur calls for an invasion of China, wants to use the atomic bomb Macar thur cr iticized Tr uman for wanting a
An artillery officer directs UN troops as they drop white phosphorous on a Communist-held post in February 1951.

The Korean War

War ends in a stalemate

An ar mistice was signed ending the war in J uly 1953 Korea was divided at the 38th par allel Korean War mar ked an impor tant tur ning point in the Cold War a major militar y U.S. began build-up; began using militar y force to prevent spread of

A New Red Scare

U.S. citizens in 1950s feared Communists wanted to take over the wor ld. This fear was known as the Red Scare.

Spies like J ulius and Ethel Rosenber g and Alger Hiss caused fear that our gover nment was infiltr ated by the Communists

House Un-American Activities Committee

Committee set up to investigate Communist activities in the U.S. HUAC searched for Soviet spies and Communist sympathizer s.

A New Red Scare

House Un-American Committee meeting in 1948

Are you now or have you ever been a Communist?

People who were accused of being Communists were often blacklisted A group of Hollywood actor s who were blacklisted for refusing to answer HUAC questions became known as the Hollywood Ten

The Hollywood Ten

Movie stars Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart lead a protest during height of Hollywood Blacklist controversy

If someone was blacklisted, it meant they were denied wor k or ostr acized from society

In 1952, U.S. Senator J oe McCar thy began holding Senate hear ings Numerous Amer icans accused of having ties to the Communist Par ty

McCarthyism

McCar thy tur ned the hear ings into witch-hunts, destroying numerous peoples reputations on r umor and weak evidence

U-2 Incident
Col. Francis Gary Powers spy plane was shot down over Soviet airspace in 1960

Incident cools Soviet-U.S. relations

Russians launch Sputnik

The Russians have beaten America into spacethey have the technological edge!

Russians launch Sputnik

Impact of Sputnik
Congress establishes the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) to conduct research in rocket and space technology

Congress also passed the National Defense Education Act, which provided money for education and tr aining in science, math and foreign languages

The Space Race Begins

In 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yur i Gagar in blasted off into space, making the Soviet Union the fir st nation to launch a human into or bit

Kennedy said he wanted U.S. to land a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s

The Space Race Begins

Kennedys challenge was met on J uly 20, 1969, when Neil Ar mstrong became the fir st human to step foot on the moon

Thats one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Ar mstrong

Berlin Wall Built

Soviets wanted to keep Ger mans from moving out of East Ger many into West Ber lin, where they could become free

Ber lin Wall became the symbol of Communist oppression around the

Ich bin ein Berliner!

(1963)

President Kennedy tells Berliners that the West is with them!

Castro embraces Communism

(1959)

Cuban dictator Fidel Castro embraces Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev

Bay of Pigs Debacle

(1961)

CIA-tr ained Cuban exiles led an attack at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba in an attempt to over throw Castro Invasion was a disaster and failed; was a huge foreign policy blunder for the United States

Cuban Missile Crisis

U.S. and Russia came extremely close to nuclear war when Russians place nuclear missiles in Cuba in November of 1962

In response to U.S. missiles in Tur key, the Russians began building missile bases in Cuba

Cuban Missile Crisis United States places an

embar go on incoming shipments to Cuba from the Soviet Union, U.S. goes to DEFCON3 Soviet ships reach the quar antine line, but receive r adio or der s from Moscow to hold their positions

Cuban Missile Crisis

Kennedy threatens a U.S. invasion of Cuba unless Soviet missiles are removed; U.S. moves to DEFCON-2 The Russians agreed to take their missiles out of Cuba if the U.S. removed their s from Tur key

President John F. Kennedy thinking in the Oval Office during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962

Vietnam War: 1965-1973

THE VIETNAM WAR

Key figures in the Vietnam War

Ho Chi Minh

William Westmoreland

Lyndon B. Johnson

President of Nor th Vietnam who led the effor ts to defeat South Vietnam and suppor t of the South Vietnamese Vietcong

Amer ican commander in South Vietnam who told people in the media that the United States was close to winning the war, even though it wasnt

President of the United States who was president dur ing much of Vietnam War ; greatly escalated the U.S. soldier involvement in the conflict

Key figures in the Vietnam War

Robert McNamara

Richard Nixon
President of the United States dur ing the latter par t of the Vietnam War

Ngo Dinh Diem

President of South Vietnam who whose cor r uption and har sh standar ds led numerous people to tur n to the Vietcong

U.S. Secretar y of Defense dur ing the Vietnam War who made the Amer ican republic feel like we were winning the war

Vietnam in the 50s

Following Wor ld War II, the French controlled southeast Asia (known as Indochina) Ho Chi Minh led a revolt against the French to gain independence for Vietnam By 1954, the French fell to the Vietminh and they withdrew from Indochina, leaving Vietnam a divided countr y
Southeast Asia (aka: French Indochina)