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Truman invest how much in Philippines? Marshall aid Supreme commander of allied powers in Japan How many militarists were purged from govt jobs in Japan |
620 million 400 million to Europe Douglas MacArthur 200k |
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How many peasants Gaines land Japan by 1950 Aid pa us to japan No of votes Japs com party Japan army 1954 |
3 million 500 million 1949 3 million 130 k |
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Hodge outrage Koreans 45-6 Korea s 1950 nk troops bigger MCA amphibious attack MCA Chinese gains Stalin to nk Koreans dead |
Koreans are breeds of the same cats as the Japanese Inflation 300k 33% Inchon 26 atomic bombs Soviets migs 4 mil |
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Rhee out power
Kim IL sung
Us inflation sk
RheeRhees contribution to guerilal warfare |
1961 DPRK 48 chairman nkwp49
Bushel of rice 9.4 yen spet 45 2800 yen 46
Cheju guerillas opposijng rok in south received aid from nirth... Rhee took reprisals against whole island 27k to 60k killed Cheju rebellion mhtiness several thousand killed Rhee national security act
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No of Koreans died in border skirmishes before June 1950 Kim fighter planes Us citizens in Korea Nsc68 |
100k Koreans 36 Soviet yak-9 2k #500 ma . 1950 April 3x budget Acheson "blunt but effective propaganda tool" |
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Nsc 81 |
Korean troops near border No engage unless victory |
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George marshall |
SOS 47-49 containment Marshall aid Sod 50-51 rearned for Korea |
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Acheson |
Truman sought detente designed NATO loss of China as inevitable. Called appeaser by mccarthysists. One "wise men" supported Vietnam than condemn it |
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Dulles |
53-59 SOS Eisenhower French in Indochina ... No shame Zhou enlais hand in Geneva .. Seato anti comm. Retaliation. Escalated cold war tensions. |
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Rusk |
61-69 sos Kennedy Johnson Pro vientma and targeted anti war protests |
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McNamara |
Flexible response. Limited nin nuclear war pilcy. Cmc mad. Strategic bombig escaltion |
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1945-1947 military devaluation |
12 million to 1.4 million |
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Kennan Feb 45 |
Soviet leaders assumed inevitable war USSR had "a patient but dead struggle for the destruction of rivals" "Father of containment |
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Westmorland in Jan 68 |
Military "falls far short of the standards that should be demanded of our armed forces" |
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MacArthur |
October 1950 refused to salute truman Dec mca publically questioned Truman's political decisions ... Blames Europe pressure 20 march 51 - press statement posion yaly river 24 march threatened China with war 5 April 51 wrote letter the Republicans against Truman read in house of representatives Sacked that month |
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Seoul |
Fell Jan 4 1951 25 Jan operation thunderbolt Killer Ripper Rugged 15 March USA UN rok recapture Seoul |
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PRC allowed UN seat
Japan defence industry |
71 nixon
3 billion goods by 54 Jap exceeded pre war levels |
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Operation phoenix |
1968-20k shock to genjtals |
1968 20000 electric shock to genitals |
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British minkster in Beijing reportig between Indian ambassadors and xhou enlai |
If 38/crossed "the people's government of China would send in troops to defend nk" |
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Truman post yalu |
UNC general HQ went into panic. 30 November Truman "take any steps necessary to meet the military situation" a bomb possible |
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Koreans are |
Breeds of the same cats as the Japanese |
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Yalu river |
14 Oct 180k 27 Nov forced back into south MCA even giving up we do not get occupy "sign of weakeness" 29 us marine division surrounded and scattered by 300k |
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After invasions |
Same day Truman to UN called for ceasefire and withdrawals Passed 9votes0 End if august 2:1 MCA 19 seot break out of Pusan 28 Seoul retaken |
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Korean POWs |
130k mao + stalin wanted all reurtn. June 53 got back 75k |
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Serving members of us armed forces due to Korea |
More than doubled to 3.2 million cuz kw |
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Strategic sk |
Army of 600k (Vietnam) Rhee gaineding term economic aid Prescense of us 8th army |
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Battle of diem bien phu |
Supplied $385Millon Surrounded by over 100km of trenches Bombed airfield no reinforcements 1000 troops Final may 1...7 French commander commander ordered surrender |
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10 facts on diem |
1. Let them burn. Monk 1963 2. November 1st hcm overtook... Protected by one palace guard offered exile... Tried to escape found + assassinated 3. 1958 40k political prisoners 4. 56-7 12k suspected opponents killed 5. Rigged 1955....38k+ 98.2% 6. 55-61 78% aid 7. £350 million 1953 8. Dien ignored french+us call for withdrawal....160k troops removed 9. 55-60 750-1500 ma 10. Ba cut murdered 56 hao hao |
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Seato |
Dulles... Against Chinese expansion Ncs5429/2 Protect Asian from "creeping expansion" "or overt aggression" USA GB France Australia NSW Zealand |
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Geneva accords |
July 1954 fin temrs DMZ 17 parall Vitmjnh withdrawal Elections after a one year holding action Bd rulw non comunnist south vietnam |
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General mark w clark |
"Inevitable distinction of being the first us army commander to sign an armistice without victory" |
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Rhee elected November 1954 Rhee amended.. +ve rhee Foreign aid in korea |
by national assembly 48... 180/196 CA so he could continually succeed himself Land refoems July 49 40% total farm households owned land 1954 1/3 total budget by 56 58% 200million PA 57-mid 60s |
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30/1/68 84k plaf and pavn attacked 36/44 provisional captials 20 VC infiltrate us embassy |
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Operation rt |
Target hcm trail more bomibing in south China and USSR replace Soviet MIG fighters March 65 3500 marines sent to Vietnam.... WC bombed us ebassy |
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Rate of us troops being sent to asia 21/10/67 Polls |
1967 1k PM er month 100k people leisten to speeches Lincoln memorial demanding bombing ends Polls 1965 45% preferred pressure 41% withdrawal |
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How many send to Vietnam
Death %
Spring 67 |
26 million
60% 17-21
Rallies 200k NY students + SF |
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Accelerated pacification campaign |
1/11/68 took control of 1200 villages controlled by VC Schools roads etc 1 million hectares of land redistributed |
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Acheson calls nsc 68 |
A blunt but effective propaganda tool |
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No of soldiers in south Vietnam 1945 |
Hodge- 14 |
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Hodge sucked |
70% agricultural No land reforms.... Reestablished rice collection quota Created free market... Black market and inflation |
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1948 vote ncs |
April vored us withdrawal began may |
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Korean rebels autumn 49 |
3k to 6k |
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War of attrition |
Slowly beating down the enemy |
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losses Korea |
Us 33600 China 1/million |
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From September 1950/us aid to sk |
$287 billion over 5 years |
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French Indochina |
March 45 jao overthrew and placed bao dai who abdivated wth Japs surrender Truman $15 million annually |
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Franco Vietminh hostilities |
Amphibious assault on Haiphong hanoi Feb 46 hanoi Feb 46French set up garrisons... Claimed independence under bao dai in 49. French set up garrisons... Claimed independence under bao dai in 49. |
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May 54 us aid to france |
385 million |
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Nlf |
National liberation front December 1960 |
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Laos 62/3 |
Unofiically us b52 bombers attacked central and Eastern laos |
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Land percentage held |
Diem 49% Nlf 9 |
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Hawks and doves |
H joint chief if staff.,. General Maxwell Taylor increase to 8000 in 62
Doves... Harrimen neutralisation |
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Kennedy's testing strategies |
Ma 800-3000 dec 1961 to 10k 62 to 16k Nov 63 Green berets Strategic hamlet programme 62... 3000 villages Agent orange and napalm "outs the fear of god into the VC and that's what coints" Paul harkins |
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Johnson diem 61 |
"Churchill of asia" |
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Battle of ap bac Nlf |
1963 January 2000 arvn troops to not advance on 350 VC.... Nlf destroyed 2600 of 3700 strategic hamlets |
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Martial law declared |
21 august 1963 |
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Walter Cronkite |
Kennedy broadcast "they are the ones who are going to have to soon poor lose it" |
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Summer of 64 in vietnam |
200 us deaths and Johnson increased by 2500 G of Maddox then c turner joy 7 Aug congesss "take all measure necessary" under SEATO |
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LBJ public |
"We are not going to send American boys... To do what Asian boys should be doing themselves" |
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VC us air base |
65 pleiku 9 dead sparked rt |
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Soviet migs helped |
North shoot 700 planes down |
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Us troops in vnam |
64-16k 65- 60k 66- 268k 67-449k 68- 535 69-539 71- 239k 72-47k |
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Operation ranch hand |
3 million acres of herbicide |
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McNamara resigns 67 |
Blames for limiting the bombing DMZ=McNamara line "The greatest superpower killing or seriously injuring 1000 civilians a week" |
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Op rt |
2 march 65-1/11/68 |
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Operation phoenix killed |
26k |
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Vietmases from 68 |
25% were refugees from the countryside |
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Vietmases from 68 |
25% were refugees from the countryside |
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American official on Vietnam policy |
"Trying to build a house with a bulldozer and a wrecking crane" |
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Late 67 bombing |
B52s 100,000 over five mile area |
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Clark Clifford t off |
Given these circumstance, how could we win |
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1968 Westmoreland |
Requests 206k Lodge "search and destroy" |
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My lai massacre |
March 1968 revealed by NY times November 69 Us search and destroy mmmm my lai 200 inncoent murdered March 71 William calley life sentence to three years |
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LBJ no re run |
March 68 |
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Nixon |
"Title of the peacemaker" |
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36 hour march |
Against death half million November 69 |
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Madman strategic bombing Dead |
Feb 69 bombed hcm + Cambodia Unsuccessful by 1970 so nixon estimated without us knowledge. Over 31k dead |
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Vietnamisation june 69 |
Nixon mer with thieu June 69 ... Nicon said troops would remain til settlement But 25000 troops withdrawn that day Nixon publically stated 150,000 troops be withdrawn by 1970 1970 arvn troops increased 1 million |
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Invasion of Cambodia |
30k usa and 50k arvn invaded Cambodia ... 1592 Americans died Late June us pulled out April 70 |
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Number of troops in Vietnam by the end of 71 |
175000 |
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Laos |
30 Jan 71 us supported arvn.... Withdrew after 6 weeks Half arvn forces wounded of dead |
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Paris peace talks 68-71 |
teoops us America no communist oe NV teoopsHanoi- no usMay 71- Kissinger offers withdraw 7 months... Thieus regime acceptes.... Return of POWs and the end of north infiltration Hanoi- no usMay 71- Kissinger offers withdraw 7 months... Thieus regime acceptes.... Return of POWs and the end of north infiltration May 71- Kissinger offers withdraw 7 months... Thieus regime acceptes.... Return of POWs and the end of north infiltration |
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Low morale |
60% drugs 70 71 40k heroin 1970 350 court martial |
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Over the decade from 63 |
Half a million soldiers deserted 20% for more than a month |
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Three pronged attack |
72 spring offensive hanoi Three pronged attack 120k pavn march... Operation linebacker knocked out military targets in Hanoi. |
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Ceasefire |
Oct 72.... Ceasefire 60 days withdrawal |
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Christmas bombing |
12 days after offensice Hanoi reopened talks... Paris peace agreement signed Jan 73 |
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Saigon 75 |
Military bases transferred to thieu Failed to "react strongly" if nkrth attacked. 158/mariness left in Saigon Last troop left march 73 South feeed 27k of 42k prisoners |
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1974 |
Ford no support for aid Got $700million Saigon fell communists 21 April 75 |
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Cambodia and laos |
Fell communists Pathetic lao Laos Dec 75 Cambodia April 75 |
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War powers act |
73 permission Weinberger doctrine |
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deaths |
USA 57685 NV over two million |
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China |
Prices doubled 67 times 46-58 Jiangs army list 45% of men I'm four and half months |
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Us loan to chiang |
80% lost 75% in communist hands |
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49 mao caputed Beijing banking shanghai |
49 mao declared prc |
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Truman aid to.nationalists |
£2 billion |
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Soviet Chinese treaty |
1959 300 million Soviet aid |
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Eisenhower aid 1953 vietnam |
100 million and 15 million aircraft |
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Migration Vietnam 56 |
600k-1million n-s 100k VM and up to 45k s to n |
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54-55 moving |
Operation passage to freedom 310k French balf a million |
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Minor attack |
Arvn attacked southern communist strongholds 57 59 100s killed |
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Total cost of vw vw |
167 billion |
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Thieus four nos 73 |
No communist negotiations No coalition's No land loss No communism in south Vietnam |
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Wise men |
67 pro march 68 against Acheon bohlen Lovett Harriman Kennan "Begin to deescalate and get out" |
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Giap true **** |
Until tet they thought they could win the war but now they knew they could not |
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Bad us reported in press |
My lai 68 Napalm girl 72 prize winning General Nguyen ngoc loan Battle of hue feb68 |
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Tunnels |
Cu chi 10k |
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Wml resign |
July 68- replaced by abrams |
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Us bad south Vietnam dollar |
Zurich bank accounts black markets |
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Tons of bombs |
864k v 653 k |
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Operation RT caused |
153000 deaths au moins Marine navy 152000 |
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Bombing of pyongyang |
75% destroy |
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Mmbc |
Hand on the nuclear button |
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French no |
61 DG "bottomless m, p. quagmire however much you spend" 4.8k by 50 52 law no conscription to ic |
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Clifford |
Followed McNamara 1.2 bil 68 cost reduction programme |
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Gallup polls |
Jan 67-32% August 68- 53% Jan 71 59% 52% knew someone who dked |
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