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• They had withdrawn most of there troops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.

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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

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Nations Unite & take Action

• The United Nations (UN) worked in variety

of ways towards increasing collective

global sercurity.

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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.

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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.

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Weapons of Mass Destruction

• In the 1980’s, both countries talked about

deactivating some of their Nuclear

Weapons.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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Human Rights Issues

• In 1948, the UN issued the Universal

Declaration of Human Rights; sets human

right standards for all the nation.

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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

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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

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Health Issues

• In 2003, the world faced a major threat

• The outbreak was Severe Acute

Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.