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History Flashcards

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JFK started sending military personnel in…

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1962 (11,500)

1964-23,000

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1961- diem officials killed by viet cong

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4000

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Operation Rolling Thunder

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President Johnson
7 February 1965
March 8 arrived
Ended 1972

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Strategic Hamlets programme

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Since 1962

Moving peasants from viet cong areas to South Vietnam areas

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4
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When was Vietnam divided into North and south?

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1954

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Why did North Vietnam creat the Ho Chi Minh trail?

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To move supplies to the south

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6
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First Americans landed in…

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Da nang

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Guerrilla warfare

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Small groups
Limited weapons
Hard to tell apart from peasants
Aim was to wreck morale

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US Casualties

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11% by booby trap

51% by small fire arms

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9
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1966-1971 the viet cong killed

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Approx. 27,000 civilians

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10
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Total North Vietnamese/ Viet Cong killed

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Estimated 1 million

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US and South Vietnam air rafts shot down…

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14,000

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12
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How much it cost to kill ONE viet cong

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$400,000

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Chemical weapons

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Agent orange- 82 million litres used
Wiped out 4 million acres of forests and farms
Affected 1.3 million people
Napalm- 20,000 tons between 1965-1973

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Desertion

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500,000 incidents

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Age of most Americans killed

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60% of the 56,000 killed were aged 17-21

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My Lai Massacre

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1968
Killed nearly 400 civilians
Most women, children and old men

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Anti war protest

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November 1969
Almost 700,000
Washington D.C

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Media (Vietnam)

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Military Assistance Command, Vietnam

“What the hell is going on? I thought we were winning this war” - don oberdorfer

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Kent state university

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1970
Open fire by national guard 
4 killed
11 injured
400 colleges closed because students went on strike
20
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Tet offensive

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1968- Tet New Year holiday
V.C attacked over 100 cities
V.C lost 10,000
Hope S.V people would join V.C but didn’t

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Peace Agreement (Vietnam)

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Paris, January 1973
Nixon, Le Duc Tho and S.V President Thieu

“1. Immediate cease-fire

  1. Release of all prisoners within 60 days
  2. Withdrawal of all US forces and bases
  3. Full accounting of missing in action
  4. Self determination for South Vietnam”
22
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Last US troops in Vietnam were out by…

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29 march 1973

23
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South Vietnam fell….

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April 1975

24
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Cold War dates

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1945-1955

25
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Yalta conference

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Germany divided into 4- American, French, British, soviet.
Aim to keep peace after the war
Big three joined United Nations
Disagreed about Poland

26
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Potsdam conference

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May 1945 
In Berlin
Stalin vs. Truman
Stalin protected ussr from future attack
Stalin demanded $10 billion from Germany
27
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Atomic bombs

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Hiroshima- 6 august 1945

Nagasaki- 9 august 1945

28
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Iron curtain

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1946- Stalin “owed loyalty” by Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania

Stalin used secret police like Hitler

29
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Truman doctrine

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Containment policy
Send money, equipment and advice to any country threatened by communism
$17 billion over 4 years

30
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Berlin blockade

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23 June 1948- May 1949
Cuts of supplies into West Berlin from west Germany
US sent supplies every 30 seconds for 10 months
Remained in the hands of the allies

31
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NATO

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North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
April 1949
Provide US with secure bases in Europe 
Avoid resistance from Stalin if they were to cross the Atlantic 
Guaranteed protection of US allies
32
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Arms race

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1949- soviets had an atomic bomb
Possibility if nuclear weapons hitting US cities
“Threats were exaggerated rather than investigated”

33
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MAD

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Mutually Assured Destruction
1961- superpowers had missiles pointed at each other
USA had more
Both had enough to destroy
1 blast would be greater that all explosives in ww2

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McCarthyism

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Joseph McCarthy- republican senator
Anti communist
Crucibles methods
Blacklists

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Marshall aid

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Giving Greece and Turkey money

$17 billion

36
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Berlin Wall

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13 august 1961
Split east and west Germany
27 October 1961 18 hour stand off at checkpoint Charlie

37
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Cuban missile crisis

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October 1962
Aries photos showed missiles pointed at Cuba (off coast of Florida)
Almost an outbreak of nuclear war

38
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Emmett Till

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August 28 1955
Gouged out eye
Crushed forehead
75 pound cotton gin fan to neck with barbed wire
Shot in head .45
Tallahatchie river
39
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Martin Luther king junior

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28 august 1963- I have a dream

Lincoln memorial in Washington

40
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Rosa Parks

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December 1 1955- December 21 1956

41
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March on Washington

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August 28 1963
200,000 blacks
50,000 whites

42
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Sit ins

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Feb 1 1960
4 black college students
400 others sat in eventually
Influenced by little rock students

43
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Little rock high school

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September 23 1957

9 black students

44
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Freedom rides

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May 14 1961
Case for desegregated bus stops
Beaten on arrival in Birmingham
Klansmen
Police watched
45
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Desegregation of public schools

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Brown vs. Board of education
May 17 1954
Argued that segregation isn’t safe for black students

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