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US foreign policy,1945-1972 - Coggle Diagram
US foreign policy,1945-1972
Berlin 1948-49
DeNazification, Democraticisation, Demilitarisation
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Operation Vittles
200,000 flights/ 4700 tonnes per day
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Cuba 1958-62
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Castro asks for US loans- rejected- nationalisation of US owned industries- US trade embargo. Cuba trades sugar with USSR
Bay of Pigs invasion- 1,500 exiles- no air support 3 days- surrendered or dead- Castro- popular- health, education, housing and land reform
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JFK- public promise not to invade, private promise to withdraw Jupiters from Turkey
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Vietnam 1945-63
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Vietminh/Ho Chi Minh- resistance, declared independence 1945
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Diem: RC minority- attacks Buddhist, corruption, nepotism, repression, torture
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Religious persecution- self immolation of monks, Thich Quang Duc
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Vietnam : 1963-69
900 advisers 1960; 16,000 in 1963
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Forest- Chemical weapons, Napalm, Agent Orange- crops, defects
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Guerrilla Tactics- tunnels; Ho Chi Minh Trail- 60t/d; rebuild villages, execute collaborators 27,000
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Tet
1967 success for US 100,000 Vietcong casualties
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Vietnam 1969-75
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Troop reductions; 200,000 gone by 1971; 25,000 left 1972
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Epilogue
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Saigon falls, US flees embassy
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$518B - debt, deficit and Great Society
US: 58,000 dead; 350,000 wounded- 2m Vietnamese
Divided generations, races, classes
Berlin 1960s
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1955 BDR joins NATO, DDR joins Warsaw Pact
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1961- 2,500 cross every day
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Korea
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300,000 Chinese invade- UN lose Seoul
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Results
36,500 US/ 0.5m S KoreansV 200,000 NKoreans/ 400,000 Chinese died
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US presence in Asia: ANZUS, Philippines, Taiwan SEATO