(History) The Korean War

The 󰈶󰈡󰈸󰇵a󰈞 War Ch.2 - Bi-Polarity and the Cold War

Tab󰈗󰈩 󰈢󰇿 co󰈝󰉄󰈩n󰉃󰈼 How 󰉒󰈀󰈼 K󰈢re󰈀 s󰈥󰈘it? How 󰉒󰈀󰈼 󰈏t im󰈥󰈡󰈹t󰇽󰈝󰉄 to 󰉃󰈋󰈩 Col󰇷 󰈌󰈀󰈹? How 󰇷󰈎󰇶 t󰈊󰇵 󰉓ar un󰇾󰈡󰈘d? How 󰇷󰈎󰇶 t󰈊󰇵 Kor󰈩󰇽󰈝 Wa󰈹 󰈩n󰇷? 01 03 02 04

01 How 󰉒󰈀󰈼 Kor󰈩󰇽 󰈻󰈦li󰉃? You can enter a subtitle here if you need it

Pos󰉃-󰈌󰈉2USA -> South Korea USSR -> North Korea Both met from ‘46-’47 to discuss how to split Korea, but they could never agree on it

The 󰈗󰈩󰇽󰇶er󰈻 󰉄h󰈀󰉃 󰉓󰇵re in󰈻󰉄󰈀l󰈗󰇵󰇶 Sy󰈝󰈈ma󰈝 R󰈋󰈩󰇵 (Aug 1948) Kim I󰈗 Su󰈞g (󰈠󰈩󰈥 1948) Elected leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, no election were held, was known for his usage of propaganda and his cult of personality, and promoted self-suffciency and isolated NK from the rest of the world so as to limit Western influence and opposition Elected president of Republic of Korea, SK commies boycotted this election, seen as dedicated patriot fighting Japanese rule, but was very authoritarian + dictatorial (USA were afraid of not supporting him and allowing Commie influence in SK to grow) 01 02

How 󰇷󰈎󰇶 b󰈢󰉃󰈋 le󰈀󰇷󰇵󰈹s 󰈻e󰈩󰈕 t󰈢 u󰈝󰈎󰇿y K󰈢󰈸e󰈀 󰉊󰈞de󰈸 󰉄h󰈩󰈏󰈸 ow󰈝 󰈹󰉉l󰇵? Sy󰈝󰈈ma󰈝 R󰈋󰈩󰇵 Appealed to the USA/UN for support in unifying Korea, but USA thought he was being rash and did no want to join the war, provided limited economic and military aid to appease Rhee Kim I󰈗 Su󰈞g Appealed to the USSR by making many trips to persuade Stalin for his support, built ties with Communist China, was provided with economic and military aid, with the NKPA being heavily armed with Soviet tanks and artillery

02 How 󰉒󰈀󰈼 t󰈊󰇵 Kor󰈩󰇽󰈝 Wa󰈹 im󰈥󰈡󰈹t󰇽󰈝󰉄 to 󰉃󰈋󰈩 Col󰇷 󰈌󰈀󰈹?

IM󰈪󰈮󰈣T󰉚󰈰󰈙 KE󰇳 󰇴󰈮󰈽N󰈜 Neither USA/USSR wanted to have any direct involvement in Korea as they did not want to go to all-out war with each other

Wh󰉘 󰉓as K󰈡󰈸󰇵a 󰈎󰈛p󰈢󰈸󰉄an󰉃 󰉄󰈡 t󰈊󰇵 US󰈠󰈣? Close proximity to the USSR + Communist China / Serve as counterbalance American influence in Japan Oc󰉃 1949 Mao Zedong establishes the People’s Republic of China, creates a more favourable international climate for the USSR, gets a valuable Communist ally in China Aug 1949 USSR tests out atomic bombs, creating atomic parity, allowing them to provide aid to NK without the threat of nuclear warfare ● Mar 1940: CCP + Nk sign a mutual defence agreement ● Feb 1950: Sino Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance was signed, allowing Mao to help NK troops and not have the USSR get directly involved

Nat󰈎󰈢󰈝a󰈘 S󰈩c󰉊󰈸i󰉄y Co󰉉n󰇹󰈏󰈘 - 68 (N󰈠󰉎-68) ● A top secret policy paper issued by the United States National Security Council during Truman’s presidency ● warned of the possible growth in nuclear capability of the USSR ● American military capability is the only thing that can contain communism + called for a tripling of the USA’s defence budget ● largely shaped US foreign policy in the Cold War for the next 20 years,and involved a decision to increase the pressure of Containment against global Communist expansion a high priority.