The Korean War - US and China intervention
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- Korea
- 1950-53
- Why did the US intervene?
- Stop expansionism of Communism
- Wanted to remove N.Korea as a threat
- To achieve independence for Korea
- NSC Document 68
- Legacy of the 1930s i.e. Hitler
- Domestic pressures - The Red Scare / McCarthyism
- USSR had broken the 1945 agreements - should suffer the cosequences
- UN resolution to work for 'peace and unity' - moral argument
- MacArthur wanted to continue his success after Inchon Landings - Sep.
- Truman didn't want to be accused of being 'soft' towards Communism
- 1st Oct. 1950
- Why did China intervene?
- Wanted to protect mainland China
- Increased confidence about the new CCP government
- 14th Oct. 1950
- Domestic benefits - war needs loyalty at home
- Depended on hydroelectric power from N. Korea
- Soviet promises of air support
- Impact of outside intervention
- Civil war had become an international war
- Increased tensions between US and China/USSR
- Less likely for Korea to be unified
- Longer and larger war - increased supplies and casualties
- Domestic backing decreases the longer the war lasts
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