1. Phones up! Be ready for notes and a warm up!

2. Which sentence best completes this diagram?
The president authorizes a military strike against forces threatening the borders of Western Europe.
Congress appropriates funding for nuclear arms facilities in Western Europe.
The president signs a treaty requiring reparations to be paid to Western European Countries.
Congress passes a bill to provide financial assistance to Western European countries.

3. Korean War
June 25, 1950 – July 27, 1953

4. How did the Korean War begin? Textbook analysis
After reading your textbook excerpt, be ready to answer:
Who started the Korean War?
What was America’s role in the Korean War?

5. Using the image, which textbook excerpt is most truthful?

6. What’s going on in East Asia?
Following World War II, Korean peninsula occupied
Soviets in North (north of 38th //)
American forces in South (south of 38th //)
Neither side could agree on new gov’t
China resumed Civil War
Nationalist Jiang Jieshi vs Communist Mao Zedong
US shocked when Nationalists fled to Taiwan
Mao founded People’s Republic of China (1949)

7. "In my generation, this was not the first occasion when the strong had attacked the weak….Communism was acting in Korea just as Hitler, Mussolini, and the Japanese had acted ten, fifteen, and twenty years earlier. I felt certain that if South Korea was allowed to fall, Communist leaders would be emboldened to override nations closer to our own shores."
- General Douglas MacArthur
Who is he? What is his message?

8. Korean War Map
You will fill out the Korean Map by answering the questions on the map with the textbook.
Be ready for popsicles to answer the questions with the class!

9. Napalm- an American invention
Firebomb fuel gel mixture, ignites on impact

13. Stalemate - War ends on the 38th latitude line

15. Exit Ticket
Do you believe the Korean War should have happened? Why or why not?