HIST 1378 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Wind Direction, Guerrilla Warfare, Geneva Conference (1954)
26 Jun 2016
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Generation of school children told that fallout shelters and duck and cover would protect them. As not true, generation basically stopped listening to government. Hiroshima and nagasaki used 2 different kinds of a-bombs. 2 piece bathing suit (so hot felt like being hit by a-bomb) Used to do most of tests in nevada. Little civil wars around the world seen as proxy wars on communism and. French brutal in maintaining control of colonies. Ho chi minh: associated with vietnam independent from france, born 1890 during imperial war of france. Ho chi minh soon supported allies (self-preservation) France kept vietnam until wwii, then japan gets them. Ho chi minh expected us to return help given during wwii especially against japanese. Ho chi minh and supporters rescued downed us pilots in pacific (loose allies) Truman decided to help french instead of vietnamese people. Cause vietnam supported communism instead of capitalism. Needed french to support us in global affairs.
