- Paris Peace Conference
- Paris Peace Treaties and League of Nations
- Motives of the USA
- Motives of France
- Motives of Great Britain
- "The Big Three"
- Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points
- The War Guilt Clause
- Nationalism and the Formation of New Countries
- War Reparations
- The Treaties with the Lesser Powers
- The Formation of the League of Nations (Collective Security)
- Russia 1917-1945
- Abdication of the Tsar, Feb./ March Revolution 1917
- The Provisional Government
- The Bolsheviks: October/ November Revolution 1917
- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 1918
- Vladimir Lenin
- Russian Civil War 1919-21
- War Communism
- New Economic Policy
- “Socialism in One Country”
- Collectivization
- Show Trials and the Great Purges
- Industrialization, 5 year plans 1928-1941
- Nazi-Soviet Non Aggression Pact
- Operation Barbarossa
- Stalingrad
- USA in the 20s and 30s
- A Consumer Society
- Henry Ford, Assembly Lines and the Model T
- Isolationism
- Prohibition
- The Washington Naval Conference, 1921
- The Dawes Plan, 1924 and The Young Plan, 1929
- Buying on the Margin
- Black Tuesday, October 22, 1929: Stock Market Crash
- Herbert Hoover and Hoovervilles
- Franklin D. Roosevelt and the 100 Days
- The New Deal
- Alphabet Agencies
- John Mavnard Kevnes
- Fireside Chats
- Europe in the 20s and 30s
- The Weimar Republic
- The Maginot Line
- The Beer Hall Putsch (Munich Putsch) and Mein Kampf
- Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism
- Locarno and Kellogg-Briand Pacts
- Gustaf Stresemann and The Dawes Plan
- Early Acts of Appeasement
- Final Acts of Appeasement
- The Spanish Civil War
- Hitler and the Rise of Nazism
- Anti Semitism and the Holocaust
- World War II
- The Invasion of Poland
- The Invasion of Norway and Low Countries
- Invasion of France (Dunkirk)
- The Battle of Britain (Operation Sea Lion)
- The Battle of the Atlantic
- North Africa
- Italy in Greece and Yugoslavia
- Operation Barbarossa
- Pearl Harbor
- Japan's Need For Natural Resources
- Turning Point 1943: Stalingrad, Kursk, El Alamein
- Island Hopping
- Invasion of Italy
- D-Day
- The Battle of the Bulge
- Iwo Jima and Okinagawa
- The Manhattan Project
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- The Wartime Conference: The Opening shots of the Cold War
- Advances in Technology and the Role of Women
- The Nuremburg Trial
- Early Cold War
- A Bi-Polar World
- The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
- 1948 Coup in Czechoslovakia
- Yugoslavia and Albania "Cracks in the Iron Curtain"
- The Berlin Blockade Airlift 1948
- NATO and Warsaw Pact
- The Korean War, 1950-53
- McCarthyism
- Nikita Krushchev and De-Stalinization
- Eisenhower Doctrine
- The Hungarian Uprising, 1956
- The Space Race and Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM's)
- The Rise of John F. Kennedy
- The Berlin Wall, 1961
- The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
- The Assassination of John F. Kennedy, 1963
- The Late Cold War
- The Gulf of Tonkin and the Vietnam War
- Ho Chi Minh and Vietcong
- Vietnamization
- The Leonid Brezhnev Era
- Czechoslovakia, 1968
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
- Richard Nixon and Detente
- Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter
- Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) I and II 1972, 1974
- The Helsinki Accords, 1975
- Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, 1979
- Ronald Reagan
- Star Wars and Strategic Defense Initiative
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Perestoika and Glasnost
- The Falling of the Berlin Wall 1989
- The Russian Coup, 1991
- China, 1919 - 1991
- Chiang Kai-Shek and the Kuomintang
- The Japanese and Manchuria
- The Stimson Doctrine
- The Long March, 1934
- Mao Tse-Tung (Zedong)
- Chinese Civil War, 1946-1949
- The Korean War and Yalu River
- The Great Leap Forward, 1956
- The Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
- Mao dies, 1976
- Deng Xiaoping takes over, 1978
- Special Economic zones
- Tiannamen Square, 1989
- Middle East 1919 - 1991
- Middle East Blog
- Breakup of the Ottoman Empire and the French and English Mandates
- The Balfour Declaration, 1917
- The Israech War of Independence, 1948
- The Suez Crisis, 1956
- The Six Days War, 1967
- The Yom Kippur War, 1973
- Anwar Sadat
- The Camp David Accords, 1978
- The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)
- The Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988
- Yasser Arafat
- Saddam Hussein
- Kuwait and the Gulf War, 1991
- Human Rights, Civil Rights, Women's Rights, (India, South Africa)
- Blogs
- Apartheid and South African Human Rights Violations
- Nelson Mandela
- Soweto Massacre
- Sharpeville Massacre
- Pass Laws
- Role of the United Nations (UN)
- African National Congress
- Mohandas Ghandi
- Amritsar, 1919
- Self Rule and the Salt March, 1929
- Partition
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the Muslim League, 1947-48
- India and Pakistan (Bangladesh)
- Martin Luther King
- Great Society
- Malcolm X
- Black Panthers
- Little Rock
- Universal Suffrage and the Right to Vote
- Margaret Thatcher (The Falkland Islands War, 1982)
- Ghandi and Women's Rights
- Golda Meir
- Benazir Bhutto
- Birth Control
- Equal Pay
Background to Vietnam War
- Originally a French colony (Indochina)
- Ho Chi Minh and his communist supporters resisted Japanese occupation during WWII
- After WWII the French reoccupied
- Ho Chi Minh fought the French and defeated them in 1954 (Dien Bien Phu)
- Laos, Cambodia granted independence
- Vietnam divided along the 17th parallel
- Ho Chi Minh and his communist supporters resisted Japanese occupation during WWII
- After WWII the French reoccupied
- Ho Chi Minh fought the French and defeated them in 1954 (Dien Bien Phu)
- Laos, Cambodia granted independence
- Vietnam divided along the 17th parallel
A Divided Country
- South Vietnam was led by a Catholic named Ngo Dinh Diem
- The mainly Buddhist south had opposition in the form of the National Liberation Front (NLF) and the Viet Cong (a guerrilla force)
- The North (Ho Chi Minh) supported both of these groups
- The north never accepted the Geneva agreement of 1954
- The mainly Buddhist south had opposition in the form of the National Liberation Front (NLF) and the Viet Cong (a guerrilla force)
- The North (Ho Chi Minh) supported both of these groups
- The north never accepted the Geneva agreement of 1954
American Involvement in Vietnam
- U.S. saw this as another situation in which containment was necessary (SEATO)
- The U.S. had supported the French (military advisors)
- Kennedy increased troops in 1962 from 500-10,000
- CIA overthrows Diem in 1963 (corruptness)
- The U.S. had supported the French (military advisors)
- Kennedy increased troops in 1962 from 500-10,000
- CIA overthrows Diem in 1963 (corruptness)
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 1964
- A fabricated incident was set up; an American destroyer (USS Maddox) was torpedoed
- Led President Johnson to install the Tonkin Gulf Resolution
- Lead to the commitment of regular ground troops and air support
- 200,000 troops in 1965 - 600,000 in 1968
- Led President Johnson to install the Tonkin Gulf Resolution
- Lead to the commitment of regular ground troops and air support
- 200,000 troops in 1965 - 600,000 in 1968
The Tet Offensive, 1968
- Offensive launched by the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) in 1968
- Surprises Americans
- Is played up as a major victory for the North although very little is achieved
- Public relations victory
- Anti-war demonstrations increase as a result
Summary:
Supposedly an American destroyer (USS Maddox) was torpedoed in the Gulf of Tonkin which helped President Johnson install the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. The Tet Offensive was launched by the North Vietnamese Army in 1968, which surprises Americans and is played up to be a major victory for the North although very little is achieve. It was known as a Public Relations victory, and the Anti-war demonstrations increase as a result.
- Surprises Americans
- Is played up as a major victory for the North although very little is achieved
- Public relations victory
- Anti-war demonstrations increase as a result
Summary:
Supposedly an American destroyer (USS Maddox) was torpedoed in the Gulf of Tonkin which helped President Johnson install the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. The Tet Offensive was launched by the North Vietnamese Army in 1968, which surprises Americans and is played up to be a major victory for the North although very little is achieve. It was known as a Public Relations victory, and the Anti-war demonstrations increase as a result.
"I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order. " - Lyndon B. Johnson