Cause and Effect on War in America By: Nikki Brown John Heard
The Beginning • When World War II ended Korea became a divided nation of the 38 parallel • A line that crosses Korea at 28 degrees North latitude, Japanese surrender to Soviet troops. • South of this Japanese surrender to American troops.
Development • As in Germany the two nations developed. • The North was communist industrial whose government was setup by the Soviets. • The other was the South non-communist which was supported by western powers.
The Start • 1949 the war had ended between the United States army and the Soviet Union. • They had withdrawn most of there troops from Korea the Soviets gambled that the Us wouldn’t defend South Korea. • So they supplied North Korea with tanks, airplanes, and moved in to attempt to take over the peninsula.
Clean sweep • On June 25, 1950 North Koreans swept across the 38th parallel in a surprise attack against South Korea. • Within days , North Korean troops had penetrated deep into the South.
President in the Mix • President Truman was convinced that the North’s Korean aggressors were repeating what Hitler, Mussolini, and the Japanese had done in the 1930’s. • South Korea asked the United Nation to intervene. But they refused to take part in the council, to protest admission rather than communist China, into UN.
Results • As a result, the Soviet Union couldn’t veto the United Nations plan to send a international force to Korea to stop the invasion. • A total of 15 nations participated under the command of General Douglas McArthur.
In the meantime • Meanwhile the North Koreans continued to advance. • By Sept.1950, they controlled the entire Korean peninsula except for tiny area around Pusan in the far south east. • The same month McArthur launched a surprise attack.
The Meeting • Troops moving from North Pusan met with forces that had made an amphibious landing at Incan. • Caught in this “pincer-attack” about half of the North Koreans surrendered. • The rest retreated!!!!!!!!!
Memorials • A total f 36,576 Americans died while serving in the Korean War.
Vietnam War • When pearl harbor was attack the surrounding cities and government became enraged . • The War between North and South Korea also caused the Vietnamese War.
Long Term effects • The War was extremely costly with over 58,000 Americans died and over 150,000 wounded.
The Conclusion • The fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975 marked the end of the very bloody war.
What I Learned • I learned that the major effect of the Vietnam and Korean war was that “It made people look at America negatively because anyone didn’t win these wars.”
How WWII began • World War II began on Sept. 1, 1939, when Germany, without a declaration of war, invaded Poland. • Britain and France declared war on Germany on Sept. 3, and all the members of the Commonwealth of Nations, except Ireland, rapidly followed suit.
The four causes of WWII • Treaty of Versailles solved nothing • League of nations failed to keep the peace • Appeasement • Hitler
Treaty of Versailles solved nothing • Reparations left many people in the victorious nations feeling guilty. The loss of all that land to other countries simply made Hitler's early aggression look justified. • Self Determination surrounded Germany by a lot of small nation states that fell easy prey to Germany. • But it mostly made the Germans angry
League of nations failed to keep the peace • It was weak from the beginning, and had spectacular failures in Manchuria and Abyssinia, and in making Hitler keep the Treaty of Versailles. • It failed to achieve disarmament. • Countries left the failing League, and realized that they would have to fight a war.
Appeasement • Appeasement encouraged war. It made Hitler think no one dare stop him, which encouraged him to go further and further until in the end he went too far. • The Sudetenland led Stalin to make the Nazi-Soviet Pact, because he believed he could not trust Britain.
Hitler • Many historians still think that the Second World War was Hitler's personal war, and that he always intended to fight a war - as a re-run of a First World War he did not believe that German had lost fairly.
War in Iraq Nations Unite & take Action • After the attack of World War II the nations came together to create military alliances. • (NATO) North Atlantic Treaty Organization. • (SEATO) Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. • They formed these things after World War II
War in Iraq cont. Nations Unite & take Action • The United Nations (UN) worked in variety of ways towards increasing collective global sercurity.
War in Iraq Peacekeeping Activities • One of the major aims of the UN is to promote world peace. • In 2002, the UN had to close 40,000 soldiers and police in 13 peacekeeping forces around the world.
War in Iraq Weapons of Mass Destruction • In 1968, many nations signed a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to help prevent the proliferation or spread • In the 1970’s, the United States and the Soviet Union signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaties.
War in Iraq cont. Weapons of Mass Destruction • In the 1980’s, both countries talked about deactivating some of their Nuclear Weapons.
War in Iraq • Other nations has tried to develop Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) • Many people have suspected that Iraq’s leader, Saddam Hussein, had planes to develop biological and Nuclear weapons. • In March of 2003, the president ordered American troops to Invade Iraq.
War in Iraq cont. • After 4 weeks of fighting, Hussein's government fell. • By the mid of 2005, thousands of Iraqis and over 1,800 Americans had been killed. And there was no WMD found.
War in Iraq Human Rights Issues • In 1948, the UN issued the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; sets human right standards for all the nation.
War in Iraq Continuing Rights Violations • 1 type of violation occurs when government tries to stamp out political dissent. • In some countries, ethnic or radical hatreds leads to human right abuses
War in Iraq Women’s status Improves • In the non-western countries, many women not only were faced with discrimination in jobs, but also were denied in education. • In 1975, the UN held the first of several international conferences was held in Beijing, China in 1995
War in Iraq Health Issues • In 2003, the world faced a major threat
• The outbreak was Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
War in Iraq The AIDS Epidemic • The greatest global health issues is a disease called AIDS ( Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) • This disease was detected in the early 1980’s
War in Iraq Push-Pull factors • People had to move because they feel pushed out of their homelands • Effects of Migration – Everyone has a right to leave his/her country
War in Iraq/Terrorism Modern Terrorism • Since the late 1960s more than 14,000 terrorist attacks have occurred • The reason for Modern Terrorism are gaining independence, expelling foreigners, or changing society
War in Iraq/Terrorism Terrorist Methods • The weapons used most frequently are bombs and the bullets. • The targets of the attacks often are crowded places where people normally feel safe; such as: – Subway stations, bus stops, restaurants, or shopping malls.
War in Iraq/Terrorism Attack on the United States • On 9/11, 19 Arab terrorists hijacked four airliners heading from East Coast Airports to California • Two of the jets hit the twin towers of the World Trade Center in NYC. • The third one hit the Pentagon outside of Washington, DC.