IMPACT ON US (KOREAN WAR)
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- Impact of Korean War on United States
- Human and economic cost
- 33,651 Americans died in combat and more wounded
- Financial implications = shocking for US treasury, expensive 'police action'
- Anti-communist paranoia
- Encouraged this paranoia that had been developing since late 1940s
- McCarthyism in 1950s
- Eisenhower 'I will go to Korea'
- Korea definitely helped Eisenhower into presidency.
- Increase in defence spending
- Transformation of USA from an economic superpower into a military one.
- After Korean War, US was equipped to be the 'world's policeman'
- Stimulated economy and added to propseirty but some welfare programmes 'Fair Deal' by Truman were cut
- American commitments in Asia
- UN credibility
- Hadn't failed like League of Nations in 1930s
- Truman's government had showed a determination to resist aggression but had done so under an international umbrella.
- US had embraced morality; A limited war with allies was pursued instead of a sweeping US victory.
- Containment of communism
- Determination to contain the spread of communism
- Help flowed more generously to French in Indo-China, laying basis for US in Vietnam
- Human and economic cost
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