Korean War [1950-1953] & Vietnam War [1946*-1975] *French return to Vietnam
WWII---Communist Ho
Chi Minh leads
Vietminh in driving
Japanese out of
Vietnam.
1946---French return to
Vietnam and drive
Vietminh into hiding.
1950---North
Korean People’s
Army invades
southern Korea.
U.S. gets involved
in the war.
1950-1953---China
intervenes in Korean War
on behalf of North
Koreans, who are
communists. Over 5
million people are killed.
North & South Korea are
still split up today.
1961---U.S. President John F.
Kennedy (JFK) orders more help for
the South Vietnamese government
in its war against the Vietcong
guerrillas.
NYS Curriculum-
1962-1975---At least 2 million
people, including over 58,000
Americans, die in fierce jungle
fighting throughout the
Vietnam War. Protests engulf
the U.S. Vietnam unites as a
communist nation and remains
so to this day.
Curriculum-Based Questions
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What role did politics play in the Korean and Vietnam
Wars?
How did colonialism help lead to the Vietnam War?
[imperialism?]
Some Related Regents Essay Questions
Click on essays below to see the task
Some Past Regents Multiple Choice Questions:
The main reason the United Nations sent troops to Korea in 1950 was to
1.
2.
3.
4.
ensure that food reached areas of the Korean Peninsula affected by famine
prevent North Korea from conquering the people of South Korea
force the inspection of nuclear weapons plants in North Korea
restore peace between warring factions of Buddhism and Shinto
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Thematic Essays
Conflict---June 2003
Change [Political Events]---January 2005
DBQs
Wars---June 2005
Cold War---August 2006
Korean War [1950-1953] & Vietnam War [1946*-1975] *French return to Vietnam
Resources for Learning
Secondary
Primary
President Kennedy’s Letter to Ngo
Dinh Diem (1961)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietn
am/psources/ps_kennedy.html
En Español:
Websites:
Viaje en El Tiempo
The Korean War—In Depth, by BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/asia_pac/03/the_korean_war/html/
“The Korean War—American Experience,” by PBS:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX58.html
Aggression from the North, by the
U.S. State Department (1965)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietn
am/psources/ps_north.html
Foreign Language
Readings:
Journey Across Time pgs. 837-38; pp. 847-849.
“Vietnam Online—American Experience,” by PBS:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/
Vietnam War, by History.com:
http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war
Vietnam Veterans Against the War
statement, by John Kerry [who is
now U.S. Secretary of State] (1971) Timelines:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/viet U.S. Army Korean War Timeline:
nam/psources/ps_against.html
http://www.army.mil/koreanwar/textonly.html
Battlefield: Vietnam Timeline, by PBS:
http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/timeline/index.html
Videos:
A Soldier’s Story: Khe Sanh
http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/videos#a-soldiers-storykhe-sanh
On your own, with parental permission, be sure to watch: Hamburger
Hill, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, We Were Soldiers.
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Guerra de Corea
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Korean War [1950-1953] & Vietnam War [1946*-1975] *French return to Vietnam
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