In which John Green teaches you about the Cold War as it unfolded in Asia. As John pointed out last week, the Cold War was occasionally hot, and a lot of that heat was generated in Asia. This is starting to sound weird with the hot/cold thing, so let’s just say that the United States’ struggle against communist expansion escalated to a full-blown, boots-on-the-ground war in Korea and Vietnam. In both of these cases, the United States sent soldiers to intervene in civil wars that it looked like communists might win. That’s a bit of a simplification, but John will explain it all to you.
Hey teachers and students – Check out CommonLit’s free collection of reading passages and curriculum resources to learn more about the events of this episode. While The Vietnam War was happening very far away from home, it had a major impact on American soldiers and civilians: https://www.commonlit.org/texts/introduction-to-the-vietnam-war
Americans with televisions had the war broadcasted right into their living rooms, leading to an immense Vietnam War resistance effort: https://www.commonlit.org/texts/resistance-to-the-vietnam-war
Want to learn more about the Cold War? Check out these other videos from Crash Course:
USA vs USSR Fight! The Cold War: Crash Course World History #39:
The Cold War: Crash Course US History #37:
George HW Bush and the End of the Cold War: Crash Course US History #44:
The Cold War and Consumerism: Crash Course Computer Science #24:
Post-War Rebuilding and the Cold War: Crash Course European History #41:
Chapters:
Introduction: The Cold War in Asia 00:00
The Korean War 0:28
Eisenhower’s Election 3:05
Cost of the Korean War 3:20
Mystery Document 4:18
Ho Chi Minh 5:19
American Involvement in Vietnam 5:55
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident 7:02
Operation Rolling Thunder 8:13
Fighting in Vietnam 8:41
Public Opinion and the Vietnam War 9:38
Nixon’s Plan to Leave Vietnam 10:34
Anti-War Sentiments 11:19
The End of the Vietnam War 11:52
Credits 13:09
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HO tool. I heard that
The Korean gunboats?
No one's sayin anything about how many bombs got dropped on Laos.
In hindsight, I must congratulate Donald Trump for dodging this horrific war.
Watching this cos it got me missing my 10th grade history class 😞
I remember the Korean War because of MASH
Is this man a teacher?
07:47 So it is not just the WMD lie in Iraq u have history of lies. US cant live without an enemy even if it has to fake it or even make it. u js has the great media to justify ur nasty work.
I like the Charizard cameo a whole lot
Thank crash course. For teaching me better then my teacher with a doctorate.
Has America ever won a war after the Korean War??? Like honestly.
First war the US lost?
War of 1812 : Am I joke to you
Why does it look like he just rolled out of bed to make this?
0:15 That's what US history kinda is. It spins around the globe only to inevitably end up back at itself, even when it wants to talk about other things.
T-like 30 mins
11:42 we love you stannnn <3
Is this all in his head? Or is he reading off something?
This is how I'm going to pass my history class during quarantine. Time to binge
Guess who all the followers are
It’s the social studies teachers and the nerds. We have 10.8 million of them
Let’s see, there aren’t that many teachers so let’s say about a million, then we have other adults and kids who are homeschooled or just watch this for fun. Let’s say that’s 3 miilion, oh buddy now we have 6.8 million nerds
LMFAO
12:48 This is further proven by the tension of south china sea. Vietnam and China are on conflict, even though they are both communist.
Anyone else here during online school? These videos are basically my teacher these days lmao
Vietnam: Hello, I wanna join!
US: Vietnam, want our side?
USSR: No, StAy HeRe!
US: Wait, no, what about we ask Vietnam, Do you want to join our si-.
Vietnam: Nope, I will go to USSR
US: Ok, introducing Vietnam joining war
USSR: YAY
so ask yourself this: if the US gov lied about an incident in order to go to war in Vietnam, what other incidents are they lying about that victimize/harm other groups for US's benefit?
👎🏼🖕🏽ho chi minh
oof whyyyyyy I like when he gets shocked lol
here for quarantine school lmfaooo
we got MASH from Korea
3:11 We are related to Eisenhower. WE ARE BIG SHOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just kidding.
Stan said words!!
"lol like ur romantic endeavors ur unsuccessful" gee i wonder why
Well, i am chinese and i am watching this
6:57 "You are scary seriously"
Uncle Ho in our nightmares
At 7:23, I think you mean North Vietnamese patrol boats, not North Korean patrol boats?
Stans voice though
yes
imagine if china invaded on the 11 of november.
then 2001 would be nothing.
I definitely believe your summarization of Nixon’s involvement in Cambodia was pretty poor and ultimately misleading.
"We love you China. Just kidding. You're not watching because of the Great Firewall!"
Me, showing my Chinese students this in our history class in China: "Well, that's awkward."