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Unit 5: How Effective was the U.S @ Stopping the Spread of Communism?…
Unit 5: How Effective was the U.S @ Stopping the Spread of Communism?
Korea
Course
UN or US war
Cuba
US reaction
Cuban Missile crisis
Revolution
Cuban war leader Fidel Castro
Vietnam
Background
Vietcong Tactics
Tet Offensive
-An attack by the Communists that took over 100’s of towns in South Vietnam.
Vietnamization-Plan of Richard Nixon to train the Vietnamese to fight the communists without the help of the US.-This is seen as a way to continue the fight, without loss of US life = protests, at a much cheaper cost.
Loss of US lives
One out of every 10 Americans who served in Vietnam was a casualty. 58,148 were killed and 304,000 wounded out of 2.7 million who served.
Cost of the War- worth around $950 billion in 2011 US dollars. (T of V= $400 Billion)
US Tactics
Operations Rolling Thunder -Massive bombing campaign that was supposed to disruptive supplies of weapons and troops of South Vietnam.
Search and Destroy -Tactic where the US would fly small #'s of troops out of Vietcong locations then destroy everything the Vietcong needed to continue fighting.
Strategic Hamlets -Tactics used to separate Vietcong from the farmers , so they "Enemy" could be easily found.
Chemical Weapons -Tactic advantage of the jungle environment that the Vietcong had over US troops.
US Involvement
Vietminh
Communist fighters from north Vietnam who wanted an independent country (No French, Japanese).
NVA
(North Vietnamese Army), official army of North Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh City (commonly known as Saigon) is a city in southern Vietnam famous for the pivotal role it played in the Vietnam War. I
Hanol
Is a Korean religion that can be considered as a religious re-establishment of the Korean national founding principle that laid the spiritual foundation for the old Korean empire Chosun (Gojoseon).
Salgon
Communist leader of Vietnam,fighting for Vietnamese independence supported by China.
Ngo Dinh Diem
US supported leader of South Vietnam, very anti-communist and dislike by Vietnamese.
Viet Cong
Figher for the communist in the North who lives in the South Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh Trail
901–1963, South Vietnamese statesman: president of the Republic of South Vietnam 1956–63.
Gulf Of Tonkin
Off the coast of North Vietnam a US ship was shot by the NVA (North Vietnamese Army), the US used this incident to declare war.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Congress's statement that te US officially at war in Vietnam.
Defoliate
Strip all eaves from trees and plants.
Naplam
Napalm. U.S. troops used a substance known as napalm from about 1965 to 1972 in the Vietnam War; napalm is a mixture of plastic polystyrene, hydrocarbon benzene, and gasoline.
Lyndon B. Johnson
President of the US who enlarger the war in Vietnam.