tension and conflict

• The Cold War


  Conflict between capitalist USA and communist USSR which avoided direct conflict
• Truman Doctrine


  Policy of the USA trying to stop the further spread of communism
• Syngman Rhee


  Leader of South Korea. Supported by the USA, but was not very democratic
• 38th Parallel


  Line which divided North and South Korea
• North Korea


  Side which attacked first in the Korean War
• Boycott


  What the USSR was doing to the UN, hence why it got involved in the Korean War
• General MacArthur


  Leader of the UN troops
• Inchon


  The landing site for the UN/US troops in Korea
• October 1950


  When 200,000 Chinese troops joined the war, as the UN had reached too close to their border
• Stalemate


  What the Korean War became, after weeks of bitter fighting
• Reasons why MacArthur was sacked


  Ignoring instructions, considering using nuclear weapons
• Panmunjom


  Place where the peace agreement was signed that ended the Korean War in 1953
• 1.3 Million


  Number of casualties Korea suffered during the war. The majority were civilians.
• $60 Billion


  Cost of US defence spending at the end of the Korean War
• Dien Bien Phu


  Where French troops were defeated by the Viet Minh in 1954
• National Liberation Front


  Another name for the Viet Cong
• Ho Chi Minh Trail


  A complex series of tunnels that kept the Viet Cong supplied
• Domino Theory


  The US fear that if one state became communist then other states nearby would follow
• Strategic Hamlet Programme


  Whole villages were moved from Viet Cong areas to South Vietnam. Paid for by the USA
• 1964


  Year in which North Vietnamese fired on the USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin
• Operation Rolling Thunder


  US bombing campaign during the Vietnam War
• Guerrilla Warfare


  Tactic used by the Viet Cong. They didn't have any uniform
• Search and Destroy


  US tactic which located Viet Cong strategic locations. Often killed civilians
• My Lai Massacre


  A Search and Destroy raid which killed 400 civilians in 1968
• Laos & Cambodia


  Viet Cong soldiers could retreat into these countries, and the US couldn't follow
• Tet Offensive


  Massive Viet Cong attack launched during New Year. Changed US attitudes to the war
• Walter Cronkite


  The most trusted reporter in America. Said he thought the war was unwinnable
• Vietnamisation


  Nixon's policy of training South Vietnamese troops to take over fighting
• $400,000


  Estimated cost to kill one Viet Cong soldier
• Kent State University


  1970, State Troopers opened fire on students protesting against the Vietnam War
• Paris


  Where the Peace Agreement was signed in 1973 that ended the Vietnam War
• Lightweight Cameras


  Meant that Americans were shown the true reality of war from the Media