Korean%20War

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Korean War

• Objective
• Analyze Americas involvement in the Korean War
• Std 11.9.3d

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Korea
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Korea

• Japan had control of Korea from 1910 to 1945
• USSR took the Northern half US southern half
  after WWII
• Settle on 38th parallel
• US pulled all but 500 troops out of Korea
• USSR this was the time to strike attacked June
  1950
• Almost took all of Korea

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Spread of Communism

• Truman believed N. Koreans were doing what Hitler
  did
• Stop N. Koreans
• Containment
• S Korea asked UN for help
• Security Council USSR boycotting
• Bill passed
• Gen MacArthur lead troops on Korea

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Inchon

• N Koreans push all the way to Pusan
• MacArthur amphibious assault at Inchon
• N. Koreans retreat
• Fighting crosses 38th parallel to Yalu river
• Chinese boarder
• Chinese warn of attack if cross Yalu river

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MacArthur

• 300,000 troops from China
• Overpower American troops and push them south
• Take over Seoul
• MacArthur we have a new war
• Called for nuclear attack on China
• Truman trying to prevent world war not start
  one

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Push em back, way back

• With help of Chinese Communists, N Koreans push
  US back to 38th parallel
• Gen MacArthur wanted to attack China and
  use atomic bomb to end war Truman said no
• Settled for peace around 38th
• Truman had MacArthur fired for trying to
  create new policies
• Was the US trying to follow the Truman Doctrine?

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38th Parallel

• 2 years fighting returns to 38th parallel
• July 1953 peace signed setting 38th parallel as
  truce line
• No land gains
• Lost 5 million troops

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Differences

• N. Korea became communist
• Collective farms
• Big army
• Many problems
• Kim Jong Il - 1994
• S. Korea receive US aid
• Push economic growth
• Democratic constitution 1987
• US keeps 37,000 troops in S Korea
• N Korea receives aid from world including S.
  Korea

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Containment is still in effect, and we are still
in South Korea today!
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Results of the Korean War

• S. KOREA REMAINED FREE
• Containment had worked
• Korea badly damaged
• Still two separate states today
• Armed forces integrated (1948)

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Domino Theory
Communism spreads like a disease