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1. ASIA CONFLICT AND CHANGE Involvement in Korea War Standard: SS7H3.e

2. ASIAHISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS Standard: SS7H3 – The student will analyze continuity and change in Southern and Eastern Asia leading to the 21st century. e. Explain reasons for foreign involvement in Korea and Vietnam in terms of containment of Communism.

3. FIRST FIVE Agenda Message: After-school tutoring Wednesday 4-5p. Progress Report goes home Friday, Feb. 7th. E.Q.’s & Warm-Ups for last week and this week will be turned in Friday 1/31. Standard: Explain reasons for foreign involvement in Korea and Vietnam in terms of containment of Communism. Essential Question Tuesday, 1/28/14: Why did the U.S. become involved in the Korean War? Warm-up: Why was communism seen as a threat to our way of life? Today We Will: • Complete U.S. Involvement in rebuilding Japan after WWII • Start Korean War

4. answers E.Q. Answer for Tuesday 1/28/14: To Stop the Spread of Communism Warm-up Answer: In the Communist Manifesto Marx & Engels predicted the workers socialist revolution would overthrow capitalism. The U.S. economy is based on capitalism.

5. FIRST FIVE Agenda Message: After-school tutoring today 4-5p. CDA III is Tuesday February 4th. Progress Reports go home Friday, Feb. 7th. Standard: Explain reasons for foreign involvement in Korea and Vietnam in terms of containment of Communism. Essential Question, Wednesday; 1/29/14: After WWII what types of governments did North & South Korea have? Warm-up: What were the three (3) points of the Yalta Agreement between the U.S., Russia, & Great Britain? Today We Will: • Complete Introduction to Communism • Complete Korean War

6. answers E.Q. Answer for Wednesday 1/29/14: North Korea became a Communist government South Korea became a Democracy Warm-up Answer: Yalta Agreement was between the U.S., Great Britain, & U.S.S.R. at the end of WWII • Where ever your army was at the end of the war that’s where they stayed • They stayed to restore order and give the people a chance to vote to decide what type of government they wanted • Set the ground rules for establishing the United Nations (U.N.) which they all agreed to support

7. ASIAHISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS KOREA During the last months of World War II, leaders from the United States, the Soviet Union (now Russia), and Great Britain met at a small resort on the Black Sea called Yalta.

8. ASIAHISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS Here they drew up an agreement about how they would cooperate to put the world back together after Germany and Japan were defeated. They called the plan the “Yalta Agreement” and called for; 1. Each country was to temporarily occupy the lands where their armieswere when the war ended.

9. ASIAHISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS 2. Each country would work to restore order and provide for free elections to be held to let the people decide what sort of government they desired.

10. ASIAHISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS • They also talked about how the proposed United Nations would be organized. All three countries (the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain) agreed they would join the U.N. and work together to see that peace and order were restored to the world.

11. ASIAHISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS However, when the war ended, the United States and Soviet Union had very different goals. The Soviet Union had seen many of its major cities destroyed. Millions of its citizens had been killed and its farms and factories destroyed.

12. ASIAHISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS As a result, the Soviet Union wanted to be sure they would never again have to face an invasion from Western Europe, so when they found themselves occupying most of Eastern Europe, they were reluctant to pull out after peace was declared.

13. ASIAHISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS The Soviet Union wanted to be sure the new countriescreated in eastern Europe were friendly to the Soviet Union. As a result they worked to be sure each of the new countries was a communist government. The United States was angry and saw this as breaking the promises of the Yalta Agreement.

14. ASIAHISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS Though fighting from WWII was over, the United States and the Soviet Union found themselves engaged in a Cold War(no actual fighting). The U. S. and the Soviets competed with each other to get as many governments aligned with themas they could around the world. (Democracy vs. Communism)

15. ASIAHISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS One place where this struggle was clearly seen was in the Korean Peninsula. At the end of WWII, the Soviet Union was in control of the northern half of the peninsula and the United States controlled the southern half.

16. ASIAHISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS Though the peace treaty called for elections to be held to unify Korea into one country, the Soviet Union wanted a communist countryallied with the Soviet Union. South Korea became a western style democracy allied with the United States.

17. ASIAHISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS The United States insisted on supporting a free South Korea. They believed that if any additional countries in Southeast Asia went to a communist form of government, others would quickly follow. This idea was called the Domino Theory.

18. ASIAHISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS War broke out between the two countries when North Korea invaded the south in 1950. After three years of fighting a truce re-drew the original boundary, to the 38th Parallel, where it remains today.

19. ASIAHISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS Today North Korea remains a communist country under the autocratic rule of Jong-Il family. North Korea has heavy industry and a well-armed military, but there are many other problems, including poor farm production and frequent problems with famine.

20. ASIAHISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS Over two million North Korean people died of starvation during the famine of the 1990’s. North Korea remains the ally of other communist countries, primarily the People’s Republic of China.

21. ASIAHISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS South Korea, on the other hand, with free elections and a democratic constitution, has been much more prosperous. South Korean prosperity is based upon its trade and foreign aid from the United States and other wealthy western countries.