Korean War - Causes and outbreak of Korean War
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- Created on: 04-04-17 11:15
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- Causes and outbreak of the Korean War
- Long-term Yalta and Potsdam
- Atomic bomb changes - US need ally for Pacific
- US Comm containment commitment (Keep USSR ou of Asia)
- FDR and Stalin agreed to Soviet-American-British-Chinese trusteship at Yalta
- Potsdam, Truman puts plans for Korea on hold (Japanese not yet defeated)
- Aims of Kim Il Sung and Syngman Rhee
- Kim Il Sung wants:
- Unified Korean Peninsula
- Under his control
- Communist state
- Use military force
- Wanted USSR support
- Syngman Rhee
- Wants Unified Korean Peninsula
- Ruled from the South
- Backed by US but not democracy
- Constantly asked US if they could back war on the North
- Kim Il Sung wants:
- US contribution to the outbreak of war in Kora
- Support brutal and unpopular Rhee (authoritarian leader)
- 12th Jan, Secretary of State Dean Acheson did not specify Korea was in US defence perimeter strategy and that UN would defend it if attacked.
- Senator Connally suggested US would accept possible Communist takeover of whole Peninsula
- Congress rejects bill for aid for Korea
- Soviet Support for Kim Il Sung
- Kim IIl Sung sees Stalin as leader of Comm in world wants -
- Approval to invade
- Soviet fighter jets
- Stalin constantly said no - busy with Poland, Germany and Europe, etc.
- Stalin gives approval in March 1950
- Reasons include:
- Situation in Europe settled (border set, Berlin Blockade resolved)
- Chance of nuclear war
- Situation in Asia more fluid
- 1949: China falls to Comm (an ally)
- War between Ch and US would weaken both sides and make USSR ore powerful
- Stalin feared growing Japan (getting more powerful)
- Stalin wanted to get there first (North invades South before vice-versa)
- Cheap war (no USSR soldiers on ground, just tanks and aircraft)
- Kim IIl Sung sees Stalin as leader of Comm in world wants -
- Long-term Yalta and Potsdam
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