Have a Seat
• You MUST have a senteo if you wish to receive
HW credit today!
• Have HW and notebooks out
Agenda
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Bell ringer
Review Questions and homework
Notes: Vietnam War
Exit Ticket
Review session tonight!
Homework
• Read pages 72-75 answer ALL “preparing for
regents” questions in the margins
• Read pages 76-79 identify all “Key People and
Terms” in your notes
Review Questions
• Define domino theory
– If one country becomes communist others will as well
• Define proxy war.
– Conflicts bt large countries using small countries as
pawns
• How was Korea divided after WWII?
– Into communist north and capitalist south
• How did the Korean War end? What is the DMZ?
– Cease fire agreement. DMZ (38th parallel)
• Who is the current leader of North Korea?
– Kim Jong Un
Vietnam War (1959-1975)
Essential Learning: The Cold War
Objectives
• Identify the Vietnam conflict and the results of
failed containment.
Objective
• Students will identify the causes, effects, and
key events of the Vietnam War
Historical Circumstance
• North Vietnam (communist) vs. South
Vietnam (democratic)
• USSR/China North – US backs South
• Vietnam was a proxy war
CFU
• What other places were divided along
communist and democratic lines after WWII?
– Germany
– Berlin
– Korea
– Europe (Iron Curtain)
Vietnam
• 1954 Nationalist leader Ho Chi Minh drove
French from Vietnam
• 1954 conference Western and Communist
powers agreed to divide Vietnam into
communist North, and non-communist South
– North: Ho Chi Minh
– South: Ngo Dinh Diem
Vietnam
• Agreement called for elections 1956
– Elections never happened
– Diem and Americans feared communists would
win
– Domino Theory activated
– Containment
– US SENT TROOPS to help Diem's government
– Ho Chi Minh Trail- supply route for Communists,
went through Laos and Cambodia to South
Vietnam
Hi Chi Minh wins
• US withdrawal in 1975
– Ho Chi Minh admired by people
– Americans seen as imperialists
– Guerilla warfare: Ho Chi Minh Trail, underground
tunnels
– Americans back home against war
Review
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How was Vietnam divided after World War II?
Who supported the North? South?
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
Describe the warfare waged by the North
Vietnamese.
• What was the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
• What were the results of the Vietnam War?