advisor to roos at yalta, secret. of state 4 truman, "too soft on.."
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vyacheslav molotov
soviet foreign minister 39-49
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potdam conference
korea as" free and independent"+ temporarilyy divided at the 38th p.. UN's trusteeship-after 4 yrs become indepe.
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1945...
both USSR and US sought to increase their influence over their zones
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Korea after WW2
mostly peasant country,-politicised by the maps, after maps let they organized PCs
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People's Commmitties...
took over *** businesses&redistrubuted food and land in sole seen as communist
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Lieutenant Genral Hodge staff...
couldn't speak korean, used maps officials to translate
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AUTUMN 1945 USSR
stopped the economic activity between the north and south- south had too little electricity and the north too little rice
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DECEMBER 1945
Soviets make kim II sung head of NKCP (north korean comm party)-fluent russian speaker, esy to manipulate- crushes opposition-christians, landlords flee to south
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elections in 1947 scrapped
usa&ussr tried to set up a joint commission for korean unification-20 miiol of s.k defeat 8 m of n.k
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1948 supervised by the UN
elections syngman rhee president.- ROK-republic of Korea independent state
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1948
democratic ops republic of Korea(DPRK)-soviet troops withdraw
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1949
general hodge& americans withdrew from S., leaving 580 advisors
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1949 division as a product of the cold war
politics was polarized, only war could bring reunification
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1949
china goes communist+ nato established-military alliance to protect europe.
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1945-50 usa army
48-750 tys, --ussr has 4 mill
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1945 fuchs
head of the manhattan project- to build a bomb.
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advisors changing...
1948: marshall+ kennan- apres: acheston (sec of state)and nitze
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berlin blockade...
involved america into the policy of containment
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Kim's unification
used pc's to reunify the ppl. accused rhea's gov. of being colonialist
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rhee...
faced a communist rebelion linked to the north-us sends 150 mill in aid. north encouraged by usa's "lack of support for the south"
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superpower mistake-
aches ton gave a speech about the defensive perimeter against communism-forgot to include korea in asia. -enouraged north and stalin
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stalin decides to back kim with military aid
t-34 tanks. kim believes that stalin would aid him if the USA attacked or if he got inv in a war with s.k
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25 june 1950
North Korea People's Army invades-civil war over reunification, but became an issue of idealogical conflict within the context of the cold war
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september
pusan perimeter- increases us military-1950 630 tis;1955-1,5 mill. abandons the build up in 1952
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OCTOBER 7th
all appropriate steps to be taken to ensure the stability of korea"-truman used it to justify the invasion of north+ us troops take pyogyang
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14 th OCTOBER (+7 from "ensuring the stability of Korea speech"
China enters the war after the warning passed via indian ambassador
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cold in the mountains..us troops NOVEMBER
2nd division defeted.
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April 1951
MacArthur dismissed
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JULY 1951
US held secret talks with USSR and China to restore the border to the 38th par.-these break down over arguments n the future boundary
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2 months after the failed negociations/ Operation strangle
used to destroy NKPA airfields, rail and fuel dumps. June 1952-extended to include electricity plants in the north- kim claims 6 tys civilians killed-international outrage
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october 1951-16th june 1953
peace talks-both sides intensely distrusted one another, neither could agree on th issue of POW
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1953
IKE elected.-threats k with a bomb, steps up the air war -negociate. 20 major dams destroyed-70 villages flooded-economy on the verge of economic collapse.
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