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- Korean War |
In 1950 North Korea invaded South Korea in an attempt to unify the country under Communist rule. |
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Fidel Castro // Bay of pigs invasion |
Fidel Castro led an uprising to overthrow a brutal cuba dictator. // Bay of Pigs invasion was president Eisenhower approving a secret plan to overthrow Castro. |
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- Vietnam War // Ho Chi Minh |
Vietnam declared its independence but when France refused to grant them it, a war began. // Ho Chi Minh was a communist leader who was given control of the north. |
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- Domino Theory |
President Kennedy and other presidents believed that if South Vietnam fell to Communism the rest of Southeast Asia might quickly follow. |
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- Vietcong |
Vietnamese Communists, called Vietcong, began a guerrilla war against South Vietnam, to reunite the country under Communists rule. |
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- Analyze how the cold war and conflicts in Korea and Vietnam influenced domestic and international politics between the end of World War II and 1992. |
The cold war and the Korea and vietnam conflicts all had something to do with Communism. |
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