Japan
SS7H3
The student will analyze continuity and change in
Southern and Eastern Asia
c. Explain the role of the United States in rebuilding of
Japan after World War II.
• Japan and WWII
• Japan is expanding in
Asia and Pacific
• December 7, 1941
attacks U.S. fleet at
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
• U.S. enters WWII
against Japan, Germany
and Italy
• U.S. in the Pacific
• U.S. attack Japanese
and take Islands in the
Pacific
• U.S. bomb Japan and
use Atomic weapons
• Japanese final
surrender August 28,
1945
• U.S. Occupation
• After surrender the U.S.
occupy or take over
Japan
• They begin rebuilding
the country
• General Douglass
McArthur runs the
occupation
• Japan’s new government
• Japan is given a
democracy by U.S.
• The Japanese Emperor is
allowed to stay
• Japan has a Constitutional
Monarchy
• MacArthur writes the
Constitution known as
the Mac Arthur
Constitution.
• The Constitution
• Two house parliament
called a Diet
• Every person 20 and
older was guaranteed
the right to vote.
• Bill of Rights guaranteed
basic rights and
freedoms
• Japan cannot declare
war
• Japan after War
• Signs all peace treaties
and agrees to pay
reparation (damages)
• American troops stay in
Japan
• Japan can not rebuild a
large military
Exit Questions
• 1. What event brings U.S. into WWII?
• 2. Who runs Japan after surrender?
• 3. What kind of government does Japan
have?
• 4. What is the Japanese Parliament called?
• 5. What is Japan not allowed to do?
Korea
SS7H3
The student will analyze continuity and change in Southern
and Eastern Asia
e. Explain the reasons for foreign involvement in Korea and
Vietnam in terms of containment of Communism
• Korea
• At end of WWII Russia,
U.S. and Great Britain
meet to agree control of
lands taken over called
the Yalta Agreement
• U.S. and Great Britain
don’t like USSR/Russia
• Russia worried about
another invasion
wanted to keep all its
lands
• USSR and the World
• USSR doesn’t let of
lands taken during war
• Keeps them and upset
the world
• Starts a “cold war”
– War without fighting
• Korean Peninsula
• Russia keeps the
Northern part of Korea
and U.S. keeps
Southern
• North = Communist
• Southern = Democracy
• Domino Theory and
Korea
• The U.S. fears that if
one country falls to
communism others will
follow.
• War Begins
• 1950 War breaks out when
the North invades the South
• South Korea is pushed back
to the southern tip of the
Peninsula
• Americans join and push
the North back to boarder
of China
• China sends troops and
pushes American back to
DMZ the original line of
separation
• 3 years later war ends with
a truce
• North Korea
• Remain Communist
• Kim Jong-Il autocratic
ruler
• Well armed military
• Poor farm production
• Frequent famine
• Ally with People’s
Republic of China
• South Korea
• Democracy
• Free Elections
• Democratic
Constitution
• Very Prosperous/ rich
• Foreign trade
• Ally with the U.S.
Exit Questions
• 1. What is the Yalta Agreement?
• 2. What kind of government is North and
South Korea?
• 3. What is the Domino Theory?
• 4. What starts the Korean War?
• 5. How does the Korean War end?
Vietnam
SS7H3
The student will analyze continuity and change in Southern
and Eastern Asia
e. Explain the reasons for foreign involvement in Korea and
Vietnam in terms of containment of Communism
• Domino Theory and
Containment
• Containment– The US policy to
stop Communism
from spreading to
other countries
• Domino Theory– The belief that if
one country fell to
Communism, other
countries would
follow
2 Vietnams
• Two Countries
– North: Communist,
controlled by Ho Chi
Minh
[Supported by China
and the USSR]
– South: non-Communist,
controlled by Ngo Dinh
Diem
[Supported by the
US]
• Would allow the Vietnamese
people to vote on which
government they wanted
• Strategies
• Ho Chi Minh Trail– The supply line used by
Ho Chi Minh and his
troops
– The US was never able
to stop the supply line
• Viet Cong– The Communist forces
in South Vietnam that
fought against the US
and the South
Vietnamese
government
• U.S. involvement
• U.S. sends advisors to
help S. Vietnamese
• U.S. patrol boat is sunk
in the Gulf of Tonkin by
N. Vietnamese
• U.S. send troops and
escalates war.
• The CNN Effect
–For the first time Americans could
watch news cover of the war from
their homes, caused a loss of support
from the general public
• Lost the support of the
American public
– “Counter-Culture”
movement
• Anti-war groups,
hippies, flower
children, etc…
• Americans protested
the war and wanted
America out of the
War.
• The War
• The Tet Offensive (1968)– Large assault by the
North Vietnamese
Communist forces
• Vietnamization– The process of the US
turning over control
to the South
Vietnamese
Government while
the US withdrew
The End of US Involvement
• Paris Peace Accord
(1973)
– US troops pulled out of
Vietnam
• North Vietnam breaks
treaty
• War ends 1975 South
Vietnam Surrenders
• 1976- North and South
Vietnam were united
• New country Socialist
Republic of Vietnam
Vietnam War Quiz
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1. Who is Ho Chi Minh?
2. What two countries were Vietnam broken into?
3. What is containment?
4. What is the Domino Theory?
5. What happened in the Gulf of Tonkin and why is it
important?
6. What is the Ho Chi Min trail?
7. Who are the Vietcong?
8. How did the war end?
9. Do you believe the U.S. was right to get involved? Support
your answer.
10. Do you believe that Vietnam was better off as a capitalist
democracy or a Communist state? Support.