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What is area causes the major problems in Southeast China?
Indo-China
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What was the capital of the ancient culture in Indo-China?
Hue
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Where is the area that was Hue now?
the middle of Vietnam
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Where were the great culture of Indo-China located?
Cambodia
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What were the cities called that housed the major culture in Cambodia?
the Whatts
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When did the French take over Indo-China?
1500-1700's
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Who banded together to fight the French in Indo-China?
the Vietminh
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What interupted the fight between the Vietminh and the French?
WWII
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Where were the French caught when thay asked the US to help them in their fight with the Vietminh?
mountainous area close to Laos called Dien Bien Phu
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Who in the US senate led the vote to not let the US get involved in the battle going on in Vietnam?
Lydon Johnson
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Who is the president that leads during the Vietnam war?
Lydon Johnson
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How did Lydon Johnson become president?
- He was Kennedy's vice president
- Kennedy was assassinated
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How did the fight between the Vietmihn and the French end?
the French just left
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What conference was held to talk about Indo-China in 1954?
the Geneva conference
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How did they end up dividing Indo-China?
- into 4 parts
- Northern Vietnam, Southern Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
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What government was Northern Vietnam?
communist
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What kind of government was Southern Vietnam?
Free Democracy
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How was the governement chosen for both Laos and Cambodia?
they went back into their ancient history and picked out a royal family to put on the throne
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When Northen Vietnam started tunneling down into Southern Vietnam what name did the Vietminh begin to be called instead?
Vietcong
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How were sent out to Southern Vietnam as advisors?
the green berets
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What happened in Vietnam in the latter 1950's?
one of the green beret advisors was killed
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What was sent after the green beret advisor was killed?
a battalion of soldiers
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How came up with the Hamlet system and where had they used it before?
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What was it called when the US troops woudl fence up a village and create a curfew and anyone outside the village by curfew was killed?
the Hamlet System
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Who were gorilla warfare fighters from Nepal?
the Gercus
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What new invention turned the Vietnam conflict upside-down?
the televsion
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Who declared us the winner of the Vietnam war and sent the troops home?
Nixon
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Who took over Cambodia?
a radical communist
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What did the radical communist leader of Cambodia do to the people?
- killed 1 million people
- he killed all the educated people first
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What is it called when you trade with a country that has a policy you are against because they provide the products you want?
Economic determinism
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What is the 4th quad of the Pacific World called?
Micronesia
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How big is Midway island?
no bigger than a runway
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What people live in Micronesia?
oriental, Asian
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What kind of islands are in Micronesia?
continental islands
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What is the 3rd quad in the Pacific World called?
Melanesia
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What are most of the people from Melanesia?
black
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What are most of the islands in Melanesia?
Coral islands
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How is coral made?
lots of sun and shallow water
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What is the sea in Melanesia called?
the coral sea
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What is the name for the 1st and 2nd quads in the Pacific World?
polynesia
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What kind of people live in Polynesia?
mixed bloods
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What does James Mitchner call the people of Polynesia?
"the Golden Man"
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What are most of the islands in Polynesia?
volcanic islands
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How are the islands in the Pacific World categorized?
- by the type of island they are
- volcanic, coral, or continental
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What explorer went throughout the Pacific World and charted it?
Captain Cook
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Where did Captain Cook die?
the Sandwich islands
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What are the Sandwich islands now called?
the Hawaiian islands
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What did the Westerners sometimes called the Pacific world islands?
the coconut civilization
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Why weren't people very interested in the Pacific world?
they didn't have gold or silver
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Who first started gathering up land in the Pacific world and when?
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What areas in the Pacific world do we own?
- Guam
- Wake
- Midway
- Samoa islands
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What was the book that talked about how the Westerners destroyed the society of the Pacific islands?
the Fatal Impact
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How did the Fatal Impact say were destroyed the Pacific island's society?
- we brought disease
- we brought fire arms and liqueur
- we brought our religion
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