History 1810E Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Souvanna Phouma, Vang Pao, Pathet Lao
5 May 2016
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Legacies: casualties of war: the secret war in laos. The cia"s proxy: vang pao and the hmong. Jfk becomes pres of us and eisenhower warns him about the situation in laos and it is his initial concern in laos than in vietnam. Laos for a ceasefire, 1962, big power agree to recognize laos and cease all mil- itary operations in laos and they become neutralized. Us bound to respect laos, and inability to put troops into laos hurt the americ- ans because they cannot see the hcm trail (importance) 5/5/16: plain of jars, importance to strategy to vietnam so then they could move south and capture the capital of laos and free the hcm trail and send supplies and what not into south. Vietnam: laos government was taken over and marxist government was put into place by. Nv gov. and said they could have sanctuaries as long as they didn"t side with the.
