Ch 33-3

Group Discussions

Standards:

I-C.9 Analyze and evaluate international developments following World War II, the cold war and post-cold war.

I-C.10 Evaluate the ideologies and outcomes of independence movements in the emerging third world.

Objective:

Trace the course and consequence of the Korean War.

Summarize the causes of the Vietnam War and describe the aftermath.

Describe conditions in Cambodia and Vietnam after the Vietnam War.

WICOR: Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization and Reading

EQ: Do you think that the United States was justified in supporting the French imperialists who controlled Vietnam and, later, in supporting the corrupt government of South Vietnam? Explain.

War in Korea

Standoff at the 38th parallel

The fighting continues

Aftermath of the war

War breaks out in Vietnam

The road to war

The fighting begins

Vietnam a divided country

The United States gets involved

U.S. troops enter the fight

The United States withdraws

Post-war Southeast Asia

Cambodia in turmoil

Vietnam after War

Vocabulary:

38th Parallel

Line that separated North Korea and South Korea

Douglas MacArthur

Leader of United Nations forces during the Korean War

Ho Chi Minh

Vietnamese nationalist who drove the French out of Vietnam and who led North Vietnam

Domino Theory

Theory that nations were like a row of dominoes; if one fell to communism, the others would fall, too

Vietcong

Communist rebels in South Vietnam who were supported by North Vietnam

Ngo Dinh Diem

Leader of the anticommunist government of South Vietnam

Vietnamization

Nixon's plan for gradually withdrawing U.S. troops from Vietnam and replacing them with South Vietnamese troops

Khmer Rouge

Communist rebels who set up a brutal government in Cambodia