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2. 1. Give one reason why people were attracted to communism in Nicaragua and Cuba. 2. What was the point of sending UN troops to Korea? 3. Who was Fidel Castro? 4. T or F – The Vietnam war was originally a fight between imperialists and nationalists. 5. T or F – In the late 1980s the US and Soviet Union agreed to reduce their supply of nuclear weapons. 6. Who was Mao Zedong?

3.  Drill – The US and Soviet Union both claimed that the build-up of nuclear weapons would help keep the peace. Explain what that meant. Do you agree or disagree?  Quiz on the 20.1 outline and today’s notes tomorrow.  In your opinion, could the Cold War have been prevented?

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6.  Vietnam was once a French colony  Ho Chi Minh = Vietnamese nationalist  Nationalists join w/ Vietnamese communists to get the French out → French surrender to Ho in 1954  USA freaks out. President Eisenhower proposes a “domino theory” – thinks if one Southeast Asian nation becomes communist, it will spread to others.

7.  Vietnam divided into north and south at the 17 th degree parallel  N = communist led by Ho Chi Minh  S = US and French anti-communist gov’t led by Ngo Dinh Diem  Diem is a bad guy. Vietcong forms – communist guerillas who want Diem gone  1963: coup by US-backed S. Vietnamese general to get rid of Diem. Overthrew and assassinated Diem → new leader still sucked

9.  US supported S. Vietnam w/ advisors and weapons prior to 1964  1964, US president Lyndon Johnson told Congress that 2 US destroyer boats were sunk by N. Vietnamese in the Gulf of Tonkin  Congress authorizes US troops to go to Vietnam. By 1965, more than 185,000 US troops in Vietnam

11.  US president Nixon knows Vietnam War = unpopular in the US. Decides to withdraw: Vietnamization (the gradual withdrawal of US forces while S. Vietnamese strengthen their combat role)  Nixon also authorized massive bombing raids on N. Vietnam, and neighboring Laos and Cambodia to wipe out Vietcong hiding places

13.  Last US forces out by 1973, and the N. Vietnamese overran S. Vietnam 2 yrs later  1.5 million Vietnamese and 58,000 Americans had been killed during the war

14.  Cambodia = unstable and wrecked by US bombing  1975, communist rebels known as Khmer Rouge set up a brutal gov’t under the leadership of Pol Pot  Under Khmer Rouge, 2 million Cambodians were killed in an effort to make Cambodia “rural”. Almost ¼ of Cambodian population was killed.

15. The city people were considered like a disease that needed to be contained so that it would not infect areas run by the Khmer Rouge. He also ordered a series of general purges. Former government officials, along with anyone with an education, were singled out in the purges purges  Pol Pot – Leader of Khmer Rouge