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What were the causes of the Korean War?

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  1. 1949 mao takes China
  2. Korea had been split after ww2
  3. Potential for conflict
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Who was the South Korean leader?

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Syngman Rhee

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Who was the North Korean leader?

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Kim il Sung

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What started the Korean War?

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  1. June 1950 north attacks and overruns the south

2. MacArthur led UN to push north back to China

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What happened after October 1950?

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  1. China joins and North drives south back
  2. 1951 more us arrive and retake the 38th
  3. Truman tells MacArthur to stop. He criticises Truman and is sacked
  4. Armistice July 1953
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How many people died in Korea?

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Four million

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What was the background of the Cuban missile crisis?

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  1. In 1959 Batista was overthrown by Castro.
  2. Makes trade agreement with Russia in 1960
  3. America stops trade
  4. Castro nationalises American businesses
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What happened in the Bay of Pigs?

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  1. JFK comes to power in 1961
  2. Continues invasion
  3. April 1500 exiles land but are killed by 20000 Cubans
  4. JFK doesn’t send help
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What were the consequences of the Bay of Pigs?

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  1. Embarrasses JFK.

2. Kruschev is scared of another invasion so sends missiles

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Describe the events of October 1961

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  1. Spy plane takes pictures of missiles
  2. Kennedy blockades Cuba
  3. Soviet ships turn around
  4. Kruschev sends his two telegrams
  5. Spy plane shot down
  6. Kennedy offers ultimatum and krushchev backs down
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What was in Kruschevs telegrams?

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  1. If blockade was lifted and no invasion, the missiles would be removed
  2. Same but USA withdrawal from Turkey
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What were the outcomes of the Cuban missile crisis?

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  1. No embarrassment
  2. Thawed tensupion as they’d realised what MAD was
  3. 1963 hotline USA to ussr
  4. Nuclear non-proliferation treaty in 1968
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what was the background of vietnam?

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  1. 1954 allies decide to split Vietnam from the French at Geneva
  2. usa back Diem with military advisors
  3. Diem killed many Vietminh
  4. 1959 vietcong is ordered to fight
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why did the USA get involved in Vietnam?

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  1. prop up Diem
  2. august 1964 Tonkin incident
  3. Johnson sends troops in
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what was the Gulf of Tonkin resolution?

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a blank cheque for Johnson to do whatever he wanted in Vietnam

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what were the US tactics in Vietnam?

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bombing campaigns, chemical warfare, search and destroy, hearts and minds

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what were the vietcong tactics?

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guerilla, ho chi minh trail, booby traps

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what was operation rolling thunder?

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1965 US Carpet bombing

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what was the Tet offensive?

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1968 vietcong offensive

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what was the Mai Lai massacre

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1968 search and destroy murder an entire village with no vietcong casualties. this got leaked to the press

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why did the USA lose in Vietnam?

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  1. vietcong blended in
  2. opposition to the war
  3. the media displayed images of atrocities
  4. failure of hearts and minds
  5. soviet/chinese support
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how did the vietnam war end?

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  1. nixon’s vietnamisation post 1969
  2. USA had left by 1973
  3. 1975 the south fell
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Why was diem hated?

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  1. Part of the landlord class
  2. Hated buddhists
  3. Very corrupt

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