HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Refugee Camp, Unexploded Ordnance, Vietnamese Boat People
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People only remember the war, but it has people and culture, it is a country: us militarism in southeast asia b. i. 1954 partition b. ii. secret war in laos 1964 1973 b. ii. 1. Us secretly trained hmong soldiers to fight in the war b. iii. Khmer rouge, 1975 1979 b. v. evacuees/first wave b. vi. Anyone with some kind of connection to the us would be sent to these camps b. vii. Millions of people left this way: consequences c. i. 2 million cambodians at the hands of the khmer rouge. Unexploded ordnances (uxo) have killed 20,000 people in. Laos since the bombings have ended c. ii. 3. c. ii. 4. Mass exodus (land, sea: the 1975 evacuees d. i. Full metal jacket: based on hasford"s short timers, published in 1979, enlisted in the marine corps, and like joker, was sent to vietnam as a combat correspondent. Jokes about it: short timer"s disease b. i. Had only a few weeks before getting out, jittery, had a hard time.
