Outcomes and Consequences of the Korean War
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- Created on: 02-06-17 12:30
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- Outcomes and Consequences of the Korean War
- The war strengthened the role of the UN, giving it more power in the world order
- North Korea was stopped from taking over the South – victory for the USA who wanted to contain the spread of communism. Defeat for USSR who wanted it to spread
- Failure to Unite Korea
- Confirmed how much influence USA had over UN
- Failed to resolve any differences between USA and USSR
- Korea
- Gains
- NONE
- Losses
- Civilian and military casualties (1.3 million) 80% of Korea’s industrial and government buildings were destroyed
- 1/10 civilians had diedHalf of all housing and the transport network were destroyed South and North Korea were heavily bombed – N. suffered far greater damage
- Gains
- USA
- Gains
- South Korea had been ‘saved’ from Communism.
- The containment policy seemed to have worked against the spread of Communism in Asia. They became even more determined to ‘contain’ communism
- Losses
- US government spent $60 billion on weapons in 1952
- Over 30,000 casualties, most of whom were US troops
- Gains
- USSR
- Losses
- The war heightened tensions with the USA and forced the USSR into an expensive arms race with the USA USSR failed to ‘win’ South Korea for communism
- Gains
- Achieved a closer relationship with a fellow communist state - China
- Losses
- China
- Losses
- China was a poor country and the war was very expensiveChina failed to ‘win’ South Korea for communism
- Over half a million casualties War against USA also meant the end of trade and political links with them for almost 25 years
- Gains
- Achieved a closer relationship with a fellow communist state – USSR War propelled China onto world stage as a major military power
- Losses
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