COLD WAR

51 nations ratified the UN charter in 1945

Korea is a peninsula in East Asia

Vietnam is located south of China and west of Laos and Cambodia. 

Ngo Dinh Diem liberated Vietnam from France in 1954.

Fidel Castro led a revolution that set up a communist state in Cuba (1959)

The Tet Offensive showed that S. Vietnam was not safe from attack.

1,054,000 U.S., Korean, & Chinese died in the Korean War.

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution- U.S. in Vietnam changed from advisors to active fighting

Vietnam is a narrow country that stretches 1,000 miles along the South China Sea.       

About 80% of United Nations troops ordered into the Korean War were American.

Domino Theory believed if Vietnam fell to communism other countries would follow            

The U.S. expanded the draft unfairly during the Vietnam War.

Richard Nixon becomes president on the pledge of ending the Vietnam War  

During the Cold War the U.S. and Soviets stockpiled weapons large enough to destroy the world.

The Vietcong were South Vietnamese guerrilla fighters against Diem and became Communist.

President John F. Kennedy approved a plan (Bay of Pigs) for Cuban exiles to aid Castro.  

The Cold War pitted the U.S. and its allies against the U.S.S.R. and its allies.

GeneraL MacArthur was fired by Truman for defying orders during the Vietnam War

S. Vietnamese forces captured Saigon in N. Vietnam leading to the country becoming communist.

In 1962 the U.S. learned the Soviets were setting up missile bases on Cuba 

After WWII the U.S. and Soviet agreed on dividing Korea at the 38th parallel of latitude.

Communist leader Hideki Tojo gained control of China during the Cold War

The DMZ was an area with no military force was set up on the 38th parallel.

The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan was designed to contain communism.     

The Cuban Missile Crisis event brought the world the closest to full-scale nuclear war.

1950 Communist South Korea invaded North Korea