History 1302 Lecture April 6, 2010
The World’s Policeman?
A political and military history of the Korean and
Vietnam Wars
Cold War/Civil Rights
Domestic Consequences of the cold Wars’ Hot Wars
Transforming Ho Chi Minh
From ally to communist threat
Military and civilian perspectives
China and the Korean War
Geneva Accord (1954)
SEATO
U.S. constructs South Vietnam
War begins anew
The war in the South
Kennedy’s escalation
Johnson’s Escalation
Nixon’s escalation
Losing the Wars
The soldier’s burdens.
Red Scare undermines NAACP
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Cold War creates a space for Williams, a veteran, to assume leadership of the
Monroe, NC NAACP
How did the wars in Korea and Vietnam transform the nation at home?
Fuels the red scare at home
Fuels anti-war movements, undermines the cold war
U.S. superpower status contested
NSC-68 (1950)
Prioritizes the foreign policy over the domestic policy
How did the U.S. lost a war to such a small and impoverished country?
The U.S. was fighting in a nation that it new very little about, and against people
that it new very little about

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- Spring '10
- Mathieu
- History, Cold War, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam War
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