Have a Seat • You MUST have a senteo if you wish to receive HW credit today! • Have HW and notebooks out Agenda • • • • 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 • • • • 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?