The impact of the Korean War
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- The impact of the Korean War
- America
- 33,651 Americans died in combat and 103,284 were wounded
- Military spending had gone from 4% of GNP in 1948 to 14% in 1953
- Humiliating military set back (300 mile) retreat
- Encouraged anti-communist paranoia that had been developing in the 1940s. McCarthyism gained support and stretched to the White House
- Senior Republicans went along with McCarthy until Eisenhower became president in 1953 who was a Republican himself
- The Korean War helped Eisenhower win the election, especially with his phrase "I will go to Korea"
- Increase in defence spending - The navy ships, air force, the army, atomic bombs and the CIA all received an enormous boost
- Taiwan, Japan and South Korea were all now guaranteed by US treaty and had US troops stationed their
- Korea
- 600,000 homes destroyed in North and South Korea
- 8700 industrial plants knocked out in the North by repeated US bombing
- Civilian population declined from 9 million to 7 million through death and emigration
- ROK army lost 415,000 killed and 429,000 wounded
- Korea still remained divided
- North Korea remained as it was in 1950 - a dictatorship with a low standard of living,sealed of from the 21st century
- US agreed to offer South Korea protection and troops but insisted no attacks should be made on the North
- Japan
- A friendly South Korea established instead of a hostile soviet state
- Japan was the key base for US operations and gained money from US defence spending their
- By 1954 the Japanese defence industry earned 3 billion US dollars from sales to the US
- The Korean War helped Japan recover economically
- By 1954 the Japanese defence industry earned 3 billion US dollars from sales to the US
- US-Japan security pact 1951, Japan persuaded to start partial rearmament as a defence against Russia and China
- Japanese Prime Minister claimed that the war was 'the grace of heaven" to Japan
- China
- 150,000 troops killed and many times this figure was the wounded
- Convinced Peng that China could not win by sheer numbers alone
- Set about creating a more technological army
- The economic cost of the war was a massive burden on China and slowed the new communist regime
- Stopped the complete defeat of the nationalists
- Who were now protected by the US 7th fleet
- Increased hostility between US and China, which ensured China's continued exclusion from the UN
- Created a friendly buffer state between China and the West
- Those who opposed Mao and looked to the US had now been repressed and disciplined
- Like the first emperor, Mao had made his mark in Korea
- America
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