Cause and Effect on War in America

By: Nikki BrownJohn 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• They had withdrawn most of there troops from Korea the Soviets gambled that the Us wouldn’t defend South Korea.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 IraqNations 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 IraqPeacekeeping 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 IraqWeapons 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 IraqHuman Rights Issues

• In 1948, the UN issued the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; sets human right standards for all the nation.

War in IraqContinuing 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 IraqWomen’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 IraqHealth Issues

• In 2003, the world faced a major threat

• The outbreak was Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

War in IraqThe 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 IraqPush-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/TerrorismModern 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/TerrorismTerrorist 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/TerrorismAttack 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.