War in Southeast Asia15.4 Notes

15.3 Mini-Notes! Part 1 ChinaChina become communist under dictator Mao

ZedongTotalitarian StateCollectivized Agriculture

Great Leap Forward-1958-1960- An effort to increase production and agriculture that proved to be a failure

Cultural Revolution- an attempt to purge China of “bourgeois” tendencies. Led to attacks and mobs on many.

China becomes an important power center for the Cold War between U.S. and Soviets

15.3 Mini Notes! Part 2 KoreaAfter WWII Korea was

occupied- divided on the 38th parallel.

Kim Il Sung- Communist dictator of North Korea, backed by Soviets

Syngman Rhee- dictator of South Korea, backed by U.S.

June 1950- North Korea invades South to reunite their country

U.N. Peacekeeping forces push them back, move into North Korea

China gets involved, U.N. pushed south of 38th parallel

Armistice ends the war- 38th becomes a DMZ

Korean War

I. Indochina After World War IIFrench had occupied

Vietnam as a colonial power

Ho Chi Minh-nationalist and communist who had fought the Japanese

Dienbienphu- 1954 battle convinced French to leave Vietnam

II. Vietnam is DividedVietnam was

divided into North (communist) and South (non-communist)

Ngo Dinh Diem- leader of South Vietnam, dictatorial but non-communist

III. America Enters the Vietnam WarHo Chi Minh- wants to reunite Vietnam

Viet Cong- Minh’s communist rebelsU.S. initially only sent supplies and advisorsNorth Vietnamese attacked a U.S. Navy

destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin3 days later thought they were attacked again

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution- 1964 gave the President a blank check in Vietnam

Domino Theory-belief that if South Vietnam falls to communism the rest of Southeast Asia would also fall

IV. War in Vietnamguerrillas- small

groups of loosely organized soldiers making surprise raids

U.S. failed to stop the Viet Cong

The Tet Offensive- major North Vietnamese assault cause U.S. public opinion to turn against the war

V. The Vietnam War EndsProtests against the

war at home in the U.S. ended the war

North Vietnamese take the South two years after the peace