LECTURE 20: THE COLD WAR: ASIA

Lecture Outline

1. The Chinese Civil War (1927-49).
2. The Korean War (1950-53).
3. Vietnam to 1961.
4. U.S. entry into the Vietnam War.

Important Information, Terms, and Names from this Lecture

Chinese Nationalists - Chiang Kai-shek
Chinese Communists - Mao Zedong
Taiwan
Kim Il-Sung
Vietnam War (1957-75)
Ho Chi Minh
John Foster Dulles
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (1954) - SEATO
Australia
New Zealand
Geneva Accords (1954)
National Liberation Front (1960) - "Viet Cong"
Richard Nixon
U. S. Military in Vietnam: December 1960 - 685 troops; October 1963 - 16,732 troops
Tonkin Gulf
Oplan 34A (1964)
Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964)
Sen. Barry Goldwater

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