History Through Literature

1. History Through Literature Chapter 18: The United States and Nation Building

2. Interim governor from 1945-1951 • started democracy and led Japan to Industrial powerhouse (tech) • Gave women right to vote • Protected human rights • Outlawed racial discrimination • Decentralized the government MacArthur in Japan

3. North Korea occupied by USSR • South Korea occupied by US • North Korea – GDP is 20 billion, about $2,000 per capita • South Korea – GDP is 1.3 trillion, $28,000 per capita • US – GDP is 14.26 trillion, $46,000 per capita North Korea v. South Korea

4. Josip Broz – “Tito” Dictator from WWII to 1980 – nonaligned • After Tito’s Death, Yugoslavia slowly started to break apart Yugoslavia

5. Bosnia and Herzegovina voted for independence from Yugoslavia in 1995. Large numbers of Serbs lived there. Serbia invaded to force them to stay • 1995 NATO air campaign stopped the killing. • Forced Milosevic to end war. Bosnian War 1992-1995

6. Srebrenica - Muslim Stronghold in Bosnia • UN tried to protect it (Dutch) • Dutch did get many women and children out • Serbs massacred over 8,000 men age 16 and up – worst since WWII • Tulza – massacre of 70 people Srebrenica and Tulza

7. Serbia – led by Slobodan Milošević tried to take power • Strikes and riots – called out the army • Kosovo (albanians) wanted independence • Serbs may have ethnic cleansed as much as 200,000 • 1999 – NATO air war destroyed the Serb army. • NATO peacekeepers (KFOR) (Kosovo Force) entered. • Milosevic died during trial Kosovo War 1998-1999

8. Helped keep James Meredith out of the University of Mississippi – segregation Mississippi National Guard

9. Elite group of the US airborne. Specifically trained to fight in harsh regions and weather. • Not really mountain anymore • Light infantry • Bob Dole US 10th Mountain Division