Latin America and Beginning of Vietnam

Guatemala Documents

• Take 10 minutes and read the two documents given to you.

• As a group come up with a summary of what you think each document means and how it can prove that the American government was afraid of a Domino Effect in Central America.

• If you have any questions during or after the reading, do not be afraid to ask me!

Coup in Guatemala

• (Leftist) Jacabo Arbenz Guzman

• Decree 900

• American government saw him as a threat to the safety of Anti-Communist leaders in Central America

• America backed Col. Carlos Castillo Armas

• Installed as leader in 1954

• 1960-1996,

• what do YOU think happened in Guatemala in these years?

Rise of Communism in Cuba

• 1952- Fulgencio Batista

• Corporations

• The Communists led by Fidel Castro takes over in 1959

• Not ties to Russia or China

Kennedy Reading PD 7.5

•Take 10 minutes to read, analyze, and annotate the document

•After that is done, spend 4 minutes and come up with one question you want to ask JFK and then as a group select which is the best question to ask.

Trouble in Berlin

• Recap: What happened to Germany and Berlin after the war?

• Why does this displease the Russians?

• In1961, East Germans build a big wall

• “Protection from Fascist influence”

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJFOsbpQRqQ

• Why was this wall able to keep people from going to West Berlin?

Much more than a Wall

JFK and the Bay of Pigs

•Brigade 2506

•Hope was to remove Fidel from power with revolution in Cuba

•Was supposed to be a secret mission

Loose Lips Sink Ships

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qXZp8bxpNY

• Their plans are discovered by the Cuban government

• The Cuban military is lying in wait

• Over 100 Cuban exiles and soldiers killed

• Over 1100 soldiers and 1000 family members were sent to America in exchange for $53 million

• Created tension between U.S. and Cuba

Arms Race

U.S.S.R. explodes

its first Hydrogen

bomb -August 12, 1953

U.S. tests first

Hydrogen Bomb

-November 1, 1952

U.S.S.R. develops

an atomic bomb - August 29, 1949

U.S. drops First

Atomic Bomb -

Hiroshima August 6,1945

U.S. develops U2

spy plane -1955

U.S.S.R. shoots

down U2 spy

plane capturing

Gary Powers -May 1, 1960

Mutually Assured Destruction

•What does this mean?

• Idea that if one nation used their nuclear weapons, the other would and everything would be destroyed

Space Race

U.S. astronauts land on the

moon - July 20, 1969

U.S.S.R. Luna 2, space

probe, hits the moon

-September 14, 1959

U.S. launches Apollo 8,

first manned space mission

to orbit the moon - December 21, 1968

John Glenn Jr. becomes

first American astronaut to

orbit the Earth -February 20, 1962

U.S.S.R. cosmonaut Yuri

Gagarin orbits the Earth -April 12, 1961

U.S. launched Explorer I -January 31, 1958

U.S.S.R. launches

Sputnik, first artificial

satellite -October 4, 1957

Cuban Missile Crisis • Cuba and Russia become allies

• Missiles in Turkey

• Russia sought to put missiles in Cuba

• Kennedy blockaded Cuba, not allowing any ships with weapons in or out

• Stalemated for 14 days, the U.S.S.R. ship returned without dropping of missiles

Trouble in Vietnam

• Before 1950 Vietnam was called French Indochina

• In 1955, the first Democratically elected leader (in South Vietnam) took power, President Diem

• French educated

• Strong catholic upbringings, led to many conflicts with Buddhist majority

• Unrest led to the rise of the National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) led by Ho Chi Mihn

Ho Chi Mihn Declaration

•Take 10 minutes and read the excerpt.

•Does the wording or the message seems familiar to any other important historical documents?

Start of the War

•Started in 1956, Peoples Army of Vietnam invaded South Vietnam and the Viet Cong started guerilla warfare

•Kennedy sent in military advisors in 1961

•By the end of his presidency around 15,000 troops and advisors in Vietnam

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx8-ffiYyzA

• President Johnson sent in the first troops into Vietnam

• March 1965

• Initially 3,500 marines

• December 1965

• 200,000 soldiers

Quiz 37

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