Hist Test 2 Part 10

· among east Germans. The prominent east Germans left East Germany and went to West Germany. Soviets came up with the idea of Berlin wall. This was to keep the East Germans in East Germany.

West Germany. He accepted the fundamental policy of containment. The soviet controlled east germany ironically contained themselves

• · most dangerous part of the Cold War Era. Soveits began to move missiles into cuba the summer of 1962.
• · Spy planes took photos of missile sites
• · Kennedy announced the US knew Soviets were putting missiles in Cuba. Kennedy said that we would have a blockade against Cuba but called it a quarantine. Blockades are acts of war.

• Cubans and Soviets feared
• · Kennedy would oust Castro. Missiles would serve as a deterrent. In this context a compromise was worked out.
• · Khrushchev would remove war heads and not attack and Kennedy would not invade Cuba.
• · Also, Jupiter missiles were removed from turkey. In a sense American missiles were
• removed for Cuban missiles.
• · Kennedy again went with containment instead of throwing out Castro.

· an air attack on Cuba. Some missiles in Cuba were armed so we are fortunate that this action was not taken by Kennedy. Afterwards soviets and Americans later agreed that this was not a very good idea.

were trying to get rid of Castro was still trying to kill Castro under cover but not through invasion.

· Kennedy and Khrushchev agreed they would no longer do open testing of nuclear bombs. Nuclear test ban allowed testing underground only.

· When china was open to relationship in mid 1950's, the administration of Eisenhower was not interested. As soviets were moving towards De Taunt the Chinese were moving away.

· coexistance. Opened a tentative agreement Sept 1955 in Geneva. 1958 these conversations were moved to Warsaw. This did not lead to a direct establishment in Beijing or Washington by either side. US policy of containment towards Soviets was same to Chinese except Chinese were also isolated.

• · president. He had a more aggressive policy to china than Truman. Shortly after becoming president he announced the releasing of Chiang Kai-Chek.
• · First State of the Union issued issued instructions that the fleet would no longer protect communist China from Nationalists in Taiwan.

• · hoped communism would cease to exist in China
• · We dare not recognize communists in China or other communism may happen.
• · Kennedy blamed Chinese for their poor relationship with USA.

· Red China. When they want to live with peace we will work with them. Notice refusal of name as peoples republic of China.

• · Reaffirmed
• nationalists in Taiwan.

He thought Lee Harvey Oswald was involved with Cuba. Nothing was found.

· resisted return of French. From their view war started in 1945. From French point of view the war began 1946 when Vietminh attacked French in Vietnam.

• · so in a real sense they ended up supporting France in southest Asia.
• · Problem French faced was that most Vietnamese did not want foreingers to rule the country.

emperor of Vietnam Bao Dai would return as a symbolic leader but do what the French want.

· recognize independence and unity of Vietnam for him to do this. French finally worked with and did this June 1948. At this point Bao Dai was not quite ready. March 1949 French President gave further encouragement that Vietnam would be independent and have unity.

· of independence of Vietnam. Independence in name is not the same as independence in practice.

· Ngo Dinh Diem. He did not see this as genuine independence. From his point of view the French were too much involved so he would not go back right away.

• · Vietminh. Soviets and Peoples Republic of China gave a little support to Vietminh but essentially this rebellion was
• "home grown".
• · By 1954 French had 200,000 troops in Vietnam. Were not able to win the war working with Bao Dai
• · French made alliances out of despiration

· mafia. French formed an alliance with them in exchange for commitment by them to support France. French gave them responsibility to police Saigon.

• · Feb 7 1950 US recognized state of Vietnam as newly independent state. May 9 1950 Truman began to extend military and economic aid to French EndoChina and in Vietnam. This all began prior to Korean war. Korean war would
• escalate US help.