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Cold War

Cold War. The United States of America during the Cold War. The war in Korea. Korean War (1950-1953).

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Cold War

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  1. Cold War The United States of America during the Cold War

  2. The war in Korea

  3. Korean War (1950-1953) The North Koreans invaded South Korea (June 1950). At first, the North Korean People's Army (NKPA) easily defeated the Republic of Korea's army (the ROKs). By July they had captured most of South Korea. President Truman feared that Far East countries might fall to Communism like a line of dominoes. The Americans went to Korea, recaptured South Korea, and invaded North Korea – advancing as far as the Chinese border. Now the Chinese were alarmed. 200,000 'People's Volunteers' attacked, with modern weapons supplied by the Soviet Union. They drove the Americans back and advanced into South Korea. The Americans sent more troops and made bombing raids. They drove the Chinese back (the Chinese lost a million men), but lost 54,000 men killed in the process. The Americans reached the 38th parallel in March 1951. A treaty was signed in 1953. 10 million people died in the war.

  4. Balance of terror

  5. Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) Kennedy versus Khrushchev: Cold War Political Cartoon

  6. CubanRevolution an image of Cuban guerilla fighters led by Fidel Castro during the Cuban Revolution

  7. Cuba

  8. Vietnam

  9. Vietnam War Timeline 1964 - US destroyer allegedly attacked by North Vietnamese patrol boats. This triggers start of pre-planned American bombing raids on North Vietnam. 1965 - 200,000 American combat troops arrive in South Vietnam. 1966 - US troop numbers in Vietnam rise to 400,000, then to 500,000 the following year. 1968 - The Offensive - a combined assault by Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese army on US positions begins. More than 500 civilians die in the US massacre at My Lai. 1969 - Ho Chi Minh dies. President Nixon begins to reduce US ground troops in Vietnam as domestic public opposition to the war growth. 1970 - Nixon's national security advisor, Henry Kissinger, and Le Duc Tho, for the Hanoi government, start talks in Paris. 1973 - Ceasefire agreement in Paris, US troop pull-out completed by March. 1975 - North Vietnamese troops invade South Vietnam and take control of the whole country after South Vietnamese President Duong Van Minh surrenders.

  10. America’sBackyard

  11. America’sBackyard This map shows the range of US interventions, both military and diplomatic, in Latin America in recent decades.

  12. An End to Cold War

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