AQA History GCSE- Conflict and Tension In Asia

Beginning of the Korean War

June 25th 1950

President of USA (1945-1953)

Harry S Truman

Premier of USSR (1924-1953)

Joseph Stalin

What's NATO

The military alliance formed in 1948 to protect west from attack

What is the Truman Doctrine?
Year it was announced

Overall US policy that promised to support countries fighting communism
1947

Chinese Communist leader

Mao Tse-tung

Name of how US excluded China from joining UN

VETO

US policy of stopping the spread of Communism

Containment

Chinese nationalist leader supported by US

Chiang Kai-shek

China falls to Communism

November 1949

Korea is divided at the 38th parallel

January 1950

Term for war fought in country that is fuelled by two greater powers

Proxy war

Number of UN nations in the UN coalition

16

Amphibious Landing at Incheon

September 1950

Tactic that allowed UN to capture Seoul

Pincer movement

Initial number of chinese volunteers in the Korean war October 1950

200,000

US president sacks head of UN forces for disobeying orders

April 1951

Number of US troops killed in Korean War

36,000

End of World War Two

1945

Number of civilians from both sides killed

1,500,000

Number of people killed in Korean War overall

3,000,000

US tactic that involved bribing North Korean pilots and stealing their technology

Operation Moolah

Date Stalin dies

March 1953

President of USA 1953-1961

Eisenhower

Korean War Ceasefire

July 27th 1953

Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnamese independance

1945

Colonies controlled by France in Far East

French IndoChina

Name of North Vietnamese communist soldiers

Vietminh

South Vietnamese communist soldiers

Vietcong (NLF)

Dien Bien Phu and Geneva Accords

1954

Name of the division between South and North Vietnam

17th Parallel

Corrupt elections and Diem's presidency

October 1955 (planned for 1956 but held early)

Percentage of votes Diem won

98.2%

Vietnamese capitalist army

ARVN

Buddhist who self immolated in protest

Thich Quang Duc

Percentage of people who were Buddhist in Vietnam

80%

Leader of Vietcong

Hua Tho

Vietcong tactics (Name 3)

Guerrilla tactics
Used hit and run tactics by using the jungle
Disguised as civilians
Used stolen weapons from ARVN
Attacked in groups of 10 soldiers

Paranoia in US of dangerous spread of Communism across the world

The Red Scare

Organisation that investigated those thought to be communist spies

HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)

Law that limited employment for communists in USA

McCarran Act

Senator who blamed many as communists working for US
How many names were on his list
How many army officers did he accuse without evidence

Joseph McCarthy
200
45

Vietnamese Civil War begins

1957

Strategic Hamlet Programme

1962

Percentage support for Vietcong increases by after Strategic Hamlet Programme (1962)

300%

Ngo Dinh Diem is assassinated by CIA and own generals

November 2nd 1963

JFK is assassinated

November 22nd 1963

USS Maddox is "attacked" by Vietnamese torpedo boats

August 3rd 1964

Number of US marines in Vietnam by 1965

200,000

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that allows US to "put boots on the ground"

August 7th 1964

Operation Rolling Thunder and Camp Holloway attacked by VC

February 1965

How much US bombs dropped during Operation Rolling Thunder

Nearly one mil tonnes

How long was Operation Rolling thunder meant to last
How long did it actually last

8 weeks
3 years

Percentage of US casualties caused by Vietcong ambushes

51%

Two booby traps used by VC

Punji sticks
Bouncing betty

Two chemicals used by US to remove jungle and how they affected people

Napalm- Hard to detect since it was clear, burnt skin and bone
Agent Orange- Caused cancer and deformities in unborn children

Number of GI's by 1968
Average age of GI's (General infantry soldiers)

Half a million
19

Name for conscription for GI's
How long were they forced to serve

Tour of Duty
1 year

US tactic to destroy and search villages for VC
US tactic to gain support from South Vietnamese peasants with propaganda

Search and Destroy raids
Hearts and Minds

Term for increasing distrust of American public in their government

Credibility Gap

Khe Sanh attacked by VC

January 21st 1968

How much was the war costing a year by 1968

$30 billion

Beginning of Tet Offensive

1968

US building attacked in Saigon

US Embassy

My Lai Massacre

1968

Platoon that committed My Lai Massacre

Charlie Company

How many innocent civilians killed in My Lai massacre

500

General who sanctioned the massacre

William Calley

US marine who wrote to US high command regarding massacre

Ron Ridenhour

Popular New York Journalist that uncovered My Lai massacre

Seymour Hersh

Percentage public support for war dropped to

Below 30%

Name for men who refused to fight in war

Draft dodgers

Percentage of black americans in the army by 1969
Percentage of the population of black americans in US

41%
11%

Person who fought for civil rights and boosted anti-war movement in 1967

Martin Luther King

Year LBJ refused to re-run for president

1968

Number of dead a week by 1968

300

Percentage of people with TV's by 1968 (meaning they would get more media coverage, e.g. My Lai)

93%

Nixon is elected

January 1969

Idea of leaving a war without being seen to lose it

Peace with honour

Date My Lai Massacre is announced to the public

November 1969

Incursion into Cambodia; 80,000 troops

April 30th 1970

Cambodian communists

Khmer Rouge

Kent State Massacre
How many killed/ injured

May 4th 1970
4 killed 9 injured

Number of students that went on National Strike after Kent State

2 million

Percentage for support of the war by 1971

28%

Gradual withdrawal of US troops and increased funding for ARVN training

Vietnamisation

Number of troops that return home by end of 1969

85,000

ARVN invasion of Laos

February 8th 1971

Laos communists

Pathet Lao

Nixon announces peace talks, led by Kissinger

January 1972

North Vietnamese peace negotiator

Le Duc Tho

Paris Peace Accords signed and US troops leave Vietnam

1973

Amount of money Nixon promised to ARVN but never gave

$1 billion

Watergate Scandal and Nixon resigns

August 1974

Saigon falls and the whole of Vietnam fall to communism

1975

Number of money spent by US on the war

$170 billion ($1000 billion today)

Number of US soldiers killed

58,000

Number of Vietnamese soldiers killed

1 million

Number of Vietnamese civilians killed

2 million