ETHN 110: Asian Americans Dr. Sobredo: Terms/Concepts *NOTE: This Is NOT a Complete/Comprehensive List
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ETHN 110: Asian Americans Dr. Sobredo: Terms/concepts *NOTE: this is NOT a complete/comprehensive list. Students are ultimately responsible for using/studying their notes for exam. SCANTRON: #4521 Brief History of International & World Trade Silk Roads, Alexander the Great, Roman Empire, Marco Polo, Dutch East India Company (1602), British East India Company Why Did European Explorers “Sail the Ocean Blue”? -GOAL= Asia & the Spice Islands, Arabs & Africans knew, national secret Venice: Europe's main market place, Magellan's profit = 10,000x original cost Race categories, "Caucasian," created by Fredrick Blumenbach, 1776 China today: largest economic boom in history, largest population -2nd largest economy (GDP [nominal]) Price of Oil: OPEC, price of barrel of oil (71% of gasoline price) -Suppliers, demand by customers, commodities traders, *politics/disasters -gas taxes (minimal effect), shadow banking (69% China) Vietnam War & SE Asian Migration Human Species: 7 million BC (Africa), confirmed by DNA tests (Dr. Spencer Wells) French Indochina, Viet Minh, Ho Chi Minh, Gen. Giap, Battle of dien Bien Phu Georges Bidault: US offers 2 atomic bombs to French, US funded 78% of war North Vietnam vs. South Vietnam, Tiger-Elephant analogy (Ho Chi Minh) Pres. Ngo Dinh Diem, Roman Catholic (minority), Persecution of Buddhists (majority), Cold War, Domino Theory (Pres. Eisenhower), Viet Cong (South Vietnam), Gen. Khahn (US puppet): Gen. Maxwell Taylor (US Ambassador), Roles of US, USSR & China: countries they supported US Strategy of War of Attrition Gen. West Moreland, 1968 Tet Offensive, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Only Congress has power to declare war, Pres. Eisenhower, Pres. Kennedy, Pres. Johnson, Pres. Nixon, US withdrawal in 1973, “Vietnamization” of the war, Fall of Saigon 1975, My Lai massacre, Lt. Calley, Nick Ut and Kim Phuc Tiger Force (Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss), Lt. Gen. Davidson (West Point Prof), Why We lost the War “Superior grand strategy,” what lesson did the US learn from the Vietnam war? Collin Powell Doctrine Third World Liberation Front Strike: 1968 San Francisco & 1969 Berkeley Riots/protests in America, Kerner Commission Report, "Model minority" response, Third World perspective, Franz Fanon, Vietnam & Anti-War movement, Black Panthers, "internal colonies" analysis of AF communities, Cesar Chavez & Philip Vera Cruz of UFW (Grape Strike), CA is no longer majority white population (US Census 2000), Hiram Johnson = "gladiator school whose warriors make up every ethnicity" (KCRA 3) Cambodian genocide Context of the Vietnam War, attempts at neutrality, Pol Pot, Khmer Rouge, B-52 secret bombing raids in Cambodia, Gen. Nol Lam coup, Khmer Rouge invades Phnom Penh, "Year Zero": Khmer Rouge starts genocide, role of radio in Cambodian genocide (cf. Rwanda), role of USSR, China and USA in Cambodia, Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia to stop genocide, Dith Pran and “Killing Fields” , Dr. Ngor (Oscar winner) Laos & Hmong Migration Laos=French Colony, attempted to stay neutral but Vietnam War pulls Laos in, Ho Chi Minh Trail, CIA recruits Hmong to fight communism, “Secret Army” led by Gen. Vang Pao, Long Cheng (Laos), 3 Million Hmong in China, CIA Dir. Wm Colby: Gen. Pao = "greatest hero of Vietnam," Pao = GW of Hmong people, Pathet Lao Party persecutes Hmong (Hmong genocide), Hmong in Sacramento, Sen. Mee Moua, Naturalization Act of 2000, Hmong in Minnesota vs. California Sen. Foung Hawj, Dr. Sa Vang (MD) Europe's Refugee Problem: 2016 Libya: Pres. Mummar Gaddafi (North Africa) Syria: Pres. Bashar al-Assad, 2011 Civil War Role of Al Aqeda & Islamic State Syrian/African Refugees vs. Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos "Boat People" Gam Saan Haak: Travelers to Gold Mountain -The Chinese in America International Context of Asian Migration -Kennethh Pomeranz (UC Irvine), The Great Divergence -Chinese Empire and Civilization Eurocentric History (History from Point of View of Europeans) Professor James Blaut: Myth of the European Miracle -Europe greatest civilization never "superior" in every aspect Chinese Civilization Admiral Zheng He, Ming Dynasty Naval Fleet, Treasure Ship vs. Columbus/Magellan -"Europe was a backward region" vs. Africa -China was the millennium's greatest civilization and greatest state The Greatest Divergence (Pomeranz): Why? China and Britain: Need for Natural resources China: Yangtze River Valley, Internal colonies Britain: Coal buried underground, development of steam engine, external colonies/markets Why did European explorers "sail the Ocean Blue"? Goal: Asia and the Spice Islands (Indonesia) Location: National Secret, Arabs kept routes secret Megallan's crew, 36 tons of cloves for 10,000 times the cost British East India Company, British Expansionism/Imperialism, trade deficit, tea, silks, paying China lots of Spanish/Mexican silver, What to do? Sell drugs, Founders of Yale University, American drug dealers, Turkey Opium War, Ganges River, Patna, Lintin Island, Nemesis warship .