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Cold War- Hansma (Vietnam War (Geography background (1) Mountains 2) Along…

- - - - Agent Orange was a chemical that would kill any plants and trees in the forest, making it easier to see any traps
  - - - America did not want Vietnam to become communist, so they supported South Vietnam's leader who refused to hold elections and cracked down on communists in the south
        
        The Vietcong were upset that the country would not become communist, and declared war against South Vietnam
        
        North Korea attacked through the Ho Chi Minh trail
  - - - "Hippies" were groups of mostly younger people who did not want to be drafted into the war and thought that it was unfair that the government wanted younger people to be brought into the war
        
        Doves= Hippies Hawks=people who supported the war
  - - - in this year, an assassin shot and killed John F Kennedy and Robert Kennedy
        
        Martin Luther King Jr was also killed
        
        National guards began shooting some of the protesters of the war, and after three years Vietnam wins the war
        
        Thousands of South Vietnamese people were evacuated by Americans on helicopters and boats
        
        China, Laos, and Cambodia all become communist
        
        after the Vietnam war, people 18 years and older were allowed to vote
- - - - America Drives the North Koreans all the way to China
        
        China sees America as a threat and helped North Korea fight back
        
        The war never officially ended, so it is still technically going o today. The sides then split North and South Korea apart.
      - Our general wanted to attack by nuking the Chinese battle lines
        
        The America president knew that the nukes did serious damage and rejected the idea of using nuclear weapons
- - - - America Airlifted supplies into Berlin to keep it going
    - - People had to pass through check points
      - They did not let in an American government official which caused a stand off between American and Soviet tanks
      - At least 171 people died trying to cross the wall
      - Ronald Reagan challenged the soviet leader to tear down the wall
        
        when the wall was torn down it symbolized the end of communism
- - - - The Soviets begin building nuclear missile sights on Cuba
        
        President Kennedy orders a blockade of all of the Cuban missile sights
        
        The Soviet Union agree to brig back their missiles from Cuba