Key Issue Two
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- Created on: 17-05-16 16:29
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- Key Issue Two
- NSC 68
- Document which increased the military budget for the USA in 1950
- Defensive Perimeter 1950
- Aimed to ensure the security of Asia - mainland Korea left out though
- WWII
- USSR liberated the North of Korea (Kim Il Sung), USA liberated the South (Syngman Rhee)
- Causes of Korean War
- Soviet nuclear bomb
- Threat of China and the threat of Chinese/USSR relations
- NSC 68
- Wished to protect Japan
- 'Red Scare'
- Support South Korea
- Course of Korean War
- 1 - First Response
- 2 - Rollback
- 3 - China
- 4 - War of Attrition
- UN
- Truman asked UN for assistance, 'Police Action' granted
- USSR could have vetoed UN intervention in Korea - but had boycotted in protest of China's inability to join
- Truman asked UN for assistance, 'Police Action' granted
- Aftermath of Korean War
- Peace Treaty July 1953 - split at 58th parallel
- NSC 68
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