Conflict and tension in Asia

• Khmer Rouge

  A group of communists from Cambodia
• Walter Cronkite

  Read the news for CBS in America - one of America's most trusted news reader
• Henry Alfred Kissinger 1969-197

  National security adviser and Secretary of State under Nixon.
• Gerald Ford

  US president 1974-1977
• Richard Nixon

  US president 1969-1974
• August 1945


  Korea is divided into 2 countries on the 38th parallel
• 1947


  President Truman promises to fight communism
• June 1950


  Communist North Korea invades South Korea
• September 1950


  General Douglas MacArthur leads a UN invasion into South Korea at Inchon.
• October 1950


  China joins the war on the side of North Korea.
• July 1951


  Korean war peace talks begin
• November 1952


  Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected as US president and vows to end Korean war
• July 1953


  NK and SK sign an agreement to stop fighting. A neutral zone is created to separate the countries
• Joseph Stalin


  Leader of USSR 1924-1953
• Harry Truman


  President of the US 1945-1953
• Kim Il-Sung


  Leader of North Korea 1948-1994
• Syngman Rhee


  Leader of South Korea 1948-1960
• Chiang Kai-Shek


  Nationalist and Leader of the Republic of China 1928-1975 (allied to US)
• Mao Tse-Tung 


  Leader of Chinese communists and the PRC 1949-1976
• Douglas MacArthur


  Chief of UN forces in Korea in 1950. Sacked in 1951
• George Marshall


  Secretary of State and Defence under Truman. Came up with the 'Marshall Plan'.
• Communism


  Goods and profits shared equally, businesses owned by the state with 1 person having complete power.
• Capitalism


  Free elections, freedom of speech and private businesses separate from the state
• Democratic


  Ruled by the people
• Demilitarised zone


  No military activity allowed in a set area
• Iron curtain


  The political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of WWII in 1945 to the end of the Cold War in 1991
• Nationalist


  A person who strongly identifies with their own nation and supports its interests
• Containment


  Communism needed to be controlled and isolated, or else it would spread to neighboring countries
• Truman Doctrine


  United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces
• Foreign policies 


  A government's strategy in dealing with other nations
• Veto


  A right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law making body
• United Nations


  An international non-profit organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among its member countries
• Resolution


  The action of solving a problem