https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3 By: Lizzie Staus en-us 2018-05-16 14:20:42 UTC 2025-12-04 20:16:23 UTC hello@padlet.com elizabeth_staus https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261231398 Start: November 1, 1955
End: April 30, 1975]]> 2018-05-16 14:23:38 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261231398 elizabeth_staus https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261232756 1955 - Catholic nationalist Ngo Dinh Diem emerges as the leader of South Vietnam, with U.S. backing, while Ho Chi Minh leads the communist state to the north.
May 1959 - North Vietnam forces begin to build a supply route through Laos and Cambodia to south Vietnam in an effort to support guerrilla attacks against Diem’s government in the south.
July 1959 - The first U.S. soldiers are killed in South Vietnam when guerrillas raid their living quarters near Saigon.
September 1960 - Ho Chi Minh, facing failing health, is replaced by Le Duan as head of North Vietnam’s ruling communist party.
May 1961 - President John F. Kennedy sends helicopters and 400 Green Berets to South Vietnam and authorizes secret operations against the Viet Cong.
January 1962 - In Operation Ranch Hand, U.S. aircraft start spraying Agent Orange and other herbicides over rural areas of South Vietnam to kill vegetation that would offer cover and food for guerrilla forces.]]> 2018-05-16 14:26:41 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261232756 elizabeth_staus https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261236614 Lasting for 20 years (1955-1975), the Vietnam war, as bloody as any other wars, took away more than 2 millions lives, in which many of them were civilians. 3 millions were wounded, and hundreds of thousands of children were left orphans. The war ruined both North and South Vietnam.]]> 2018-05-16 14:35:02 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261236614 elizabeth_staus https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261238880 On the United States’ side, more than 58,000 American soldiers were killed while more than 150,000 others wounded. According to Indochina Newsletter, Asia Resource Center (Special Issue 93-97), the U.S. government spent around $350 billion to $900 billion on the Vietnam War including veteran benefits and interests, which left a heavy burden on its economy.]]> 2018-05-16 14:39:47 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261238880 elizabeth_staus https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261241476 Start: June 25, 1950
End: July 27, 1953]]> 2018-05-16 14:45:06 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261241476 elizabeth_staus https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261241580 Start: April 15, 1961
End: April 19, 1961]]> 2018-05-16 14:45:18 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261241580 elizabeth_staus https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261241640 Start: October 14, 1962
End: October 28, 1962]]> 2018-05-16 14:45:25 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261241640 elizabeth_staus https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261243377 June 25, 1950 - With permission from Russia, North Korea invades South Korea and continues on to the capital of Seoul. South Korea does not have a strong enough army to stop it.
June 27, 1950 - President Harry Truman sends U.S. troops to Korea. The U.S. and other countries join the war.
October 20, 1950 - U.S. troops push their way into Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea.
November 24, 1950 - General MacArthur orders the United Nations forces to move to the Yalu River, the border between North Korea and northeast China.
April 1951 - President Truman believed that bombing china would end up to leading to a bigger war.
July 27, 1953 -  North and South Korea sign an agreement to stop fighting.]]> 2018-05-16 14:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261243377 elizabeth_staus https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261243396 Timeline of Bay of Pigs Invasion]]> 2018-05-16 14:49:16 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261243396 elizabeth_staus https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261243435 October 15, 1962 - Air Force Pilot Richard Heyser flies a spyplane over Cuba and takes photos of Russian medium-range missiles.
October 18, 1962 - Attorney General Robert Kennedy keeps a previously scheduled meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.
October 19, 1962 - Ex-Comm meets and discusses sending U.S. ships to Cuba to prevent Soviet ships from reaching the island.
October 21, 1962 - Attorney and advisor to the president, Ted Sorenson, writes the speech that Kennedy will give to the nation.
October 25, 1962 - With the U.S. making no progress, President Kennedy orders flights over to Cuba to be increase from one day to two days.
October 28, 1962 - The missiles will be removed, Cuba will not be invaded, and the crisis comes to an end.]]> 2018-05-16 14:49:20 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261243435 elizabeth_staus https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261246301 The effects of Korean war has divided Korea into North Korea and South Korea. Many Korean families were split with relatives on either sides of the border due to different kind of thoughts, either communism or non-communism.]]> 2018-05-16 14:56:03 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261246301 elizabeth_staus https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261246410 The was lasted 3 years and North and South Korea got split.]]> 2018-05-16 14:56:20 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261246410 elizabeth_staus https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261247943 he Castro regime quickly severed the country’s formerly strong ties with the United States by expropriating U.S. economic assets in Cuba and developing close links with the Soviet Union.]]> 2018-05-16 14:59:42 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261247943 elizabeth_staus https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261248017 The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.]]> 2018-05-16 14:59:53 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261248017 elizabeth_staus https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261249451 The Bay of Pigs Invasion only lasted 5 days and is the shortest war.]]> 2018-05-16 15:03:07 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261249451 elizabeth_staus https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261253855 The crisis only lasted 14 days and was a dangerous crisis that caused a lot of damage.]]> 2018-05-16 15:12:53 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_staus/qsfacjoncmu3/wish/261253855