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Unit 5: How Effective was the US at containing communism from spreading…
Unit 5: How Effective was the US at containing communism from spreading
KOREA
When they were going to vote in the United Nations there was no communist representative from the North Korean invasion on all Korea, because of this the US gets help from UNto use force against Korea (US was the one that gave out the most $$$ to the United Nations).
In 1950 North Korea who is communist invades South Korea who is capitalist to take over Korea
The Korean war starts of because Japan took over Korea during WW2, but the USSR defeats Japan in North Korea and US takes over Japan in South korea causing Korea to become both communist and capitalist.
CUBA
After US knows that Cuba was led by a communist leader the US decided to stop it from spreading.
The US created and Embargo ( restrictions on CUBA)
The C.I.A launches the Bay of Pigs Invasion on Cuba ( this attack failed because the USSR gave Fidel military, and Nuclear missiles)
Cuban Missile Crisis
*USSR leader Nikita Khrushchev starts building Nuclear bombs on Cuba
President Kennedy decides to add a blockade to stop the USSR from delivering weapons to the island
Before the Cuban war there was a Cuban revolution that was led by Fulgencio Batista (CAPITALIST) Cuba was in extremely high poverty and they wanted a new dictator to dominate which was Fidel Castro
The OUTCOME OF CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
both US and USSR remove nuclear bombs from Cuba and Turkey
Cuba becomes communist
VIETNAM
The US only participated in the Vietnam war because there neighbor France was loosing fight for Vietnam with the Viet MInh and they needed the USA's help to win independence for the land.
The US did not participate in the war because...
*Soldiers were injured or killed
The war was very costly
*After the Tet Offensive the US realized that they were not going to win the war.
*Vietnamization to train vietnamese to fight against communist.
VIET CONG TACTICS
The tunnel complexes were used by the Viet Cong to avoid bombs from the US and to smuggle weapons form one place to another
USE OF PEASANTS / FARMERS
The VC used to dress like peasants to bend in and not be found buy the US soldiers
HANGING ON TO AMERICANS BELTS
The VC fought extremely close to the United States so they wouldn't use or attack there men accidentley
BOOBY TRAPS
These were used to injure the US soldiers so they wouldn't participate in the war for a certain period of time
US tactics tile consisted of strategic hamlets which were to move farmers villagers to a safe zone to find their enemy ( this was not effective because the Vietnamese did not want to be moved)
Another of the US tactics was the Rolling Tunder was to bomb supplies and weapons in SV. The problems was that it did not disrupt supplies, and it killed innocent people.
SEARCH AND DESTROY
this was to search for the VC locations to destroy everything that the VC needed to continue fighting.
CHEMICAL WEAPONS
The US used this tatic to combat the jungle environment that the VC needed with a spray. The problems were that innocent people were again hurt.