Conflict and Tensions in Asia key dates

Your mum was made president in [blank_start]1969[blank_end]

Truman made the Truman Doctrine in [blank_start]1947[blank_end], vowing to contain communism and put [blank_start]2[blank_end] billion dollars into China to help the Nationalists who fell to the Communists in [blank_start]1949[blank_end]

Kim Il Sung ordered the invasion of South Korea in [blank_start]1950[blank_end], backed by Russia

The USA blocked China from joining the UN in [blank_start]1949[blank_end]

[blank_start]18[blank_end] countries contributed troops to the UN force in Korea but the majority were American

After the South Korean force pushed up from [blank_start]Pusan[blank_end] and the UN force from [blank_start]Inchon[blank_end], they advanced towards the [blank_start]Yalu[blank_end] River and in [blank_start]October[blank_end] 1950, [blank_start]200000[blank_end] Chinese troops launched an attack

By [blank_start]January[blank_end] (month) [blank_start]1951[blank_end] (year) the UN forces were driven out of [blank_start]Seoul[blank_end] by the Chinese who were committed to communism, taught to hate the Americans and supplied by modern tanks and planes by the [blank_start]USSR[blank_end]

In [blank_start]April[blank_end] 1951 Truman removed MacArthur from his position and brought him back to the USA

After stalling for two years, a peace agreement was signed in Panmunjom in [blank_start]July[blank_end](month) [blank_start]1953[blank_end](year), marking peace in Korea

The USA lost [blank_start]30000[blank_end] troops in Korea and it's defense spending rose from [blank_start]12[blank_end] billion US dollars to [blank_start]60[blank_end] billion US dollars

Korea had [blank_start]1.3[blank_end] million casualties in the war

In [blank_start]1954[blank_end], the South East Asia Treaty Organisation was founded

The Viet Minh declared Vietnam independent for the first time in [blank_start]1945[blank_end] after taking control of Hanoi (the capital of Vietnam)

After [blank_start]9[blank_end] years of fighting in Vietnam they lost the battle of Dien Bein Phu, where they lost [blank_start]8000[blank_end] troops. Despite receiving [blank_start]500[blank_end] million yearly from America

In 1961, there were [blank_start]20000[blank_end] Vietcong fights in S-Vietnam

Eisenhower, US president from [blank_start]1953[blank_end] till [blank_start]1960[blank_end], sent [blank_start]1.6[blank_end] billion of aid to the South Vietnamese government between 1954 and 1960

Kennedys first act towards the war was to send [blank_start]11000[blank_end] military advisors

By the time America fully committed to the war in Vietnam the combined Vietcong, NVA force, totalled [blank_start]170000[blank_end]

[blank_start]11[blank_end]% of US casualties came from booby traps and [blank_start]51[blank_end]% from small ambushes

Between 1966 and 1971, [blank_start]27000[blank_end] civilians were killed from working with the South Vietnamese government by the Vietcong

The infamous My Lai Massacre in [blank_start]1968[blank_end] killed [blank_start]400[blank_end]

Operation Rolling Thunder lasted from [blank_start]1965[blank_end] till [blank_start]1972[blank_end]

It was estimated it cost [blank_start]400000[blank_end] dollars to kill every Viet Cong fighter. At its height the war cost [blank_start]30[blank_end] billion yearly

Due to the drafting occuring from [blank_start]1967[blank_end], there were [blank_start]500000[blank_end] who had low morale and eventually deserted

Nixon used his policy of Vietnamisation and withdrew [blank_start]400000[blank_end] troops by the end of 1971

First negative footage was in [blank_start]1965[blank_end] when TV footage showed marines setting fire to homes

In [blank_start]1968[blank_end] Walter Cronkite, a trusted news reader, famously said the war was unwinnable, marking a change of view for the public

In [blank_start]1970[blank_end], the Kent State Massacre happened and [blank_start]4[blank_end] students were killed

[blank_start]30[blank_end]% of African Americans were sent to war compared to [blank_start]19[blank_end]% of white Americans. Sparking Martin Luther King to speak out

In [blank_start]January[blank_end] (month) [blank_start]1973[blank_end](year) in Paris a peace agreement was signed by North and South Vietnam and the USA

In April [blank_start]1975[blank_end] North Vietnam had captured Saigon

The Vietnamese war had a large cost, the USA spent [blank_start]170[blank_end] billion dollars in total which is almost a trillion today

The Vietnamese war had [blank_start]58000[blank_end] Americans and [blank_start]1[blank_end] million Vietnamese troops killed and [blank_start]2[blank_end] million civilians killed