Why did the US become so deeply involved in the Korean War in the years 1950 – 1953? It has been argued that the US became very deeply involved in the Korean War in the years 1950 to 1953. Factors such as the Truman doctrine, the domino theory and China’s fall to communism with Mao are all reasons for the US becoming involved in the war in Korea. The main factor for the US becoming deeply involved in the war was the domino theory, as it caused the release of the Truman doctrine and caused the USA to fear the fall of Japan, which is why they got so deeply involved in the war. China falling to communism caused great fear to spread across America as they worried Japan would be next in line to adopt the communist ideology.
The Cold War is discussed widely around the world and as huge impact on the fight between Republicans and Democrats about communism and anticommunism. When describing the events that occur with anticommunism and McCarthyism. When it comes to discussing anticommunism they think about people who are against a government that ruled by an authority party group. Anticommunism think that what communism wants are false and damaging to the governments. Senator McCarty believed that communism had influenced Americans in a negative way when
To what extent was the deterioration in Sino-Soviet relations in the years 1958-1969 due to personal rivalries? After the Communist revolution in China 1949, Sino-Soviet relations were thought, and feared, to be the start of a revolution that could threaten communism in China that could threaten communism in countries world wide. However, from the time of the Great Leap forward of 1958 to the Ussuri River dispute of 1969 these two once great allies had brought one another to the brink of nuclear war. The question is whether this was down to nothing more than the individual personalities of the heads of states, or was it more do do with the national rivalries that had been abundant even before the rise of communism in either country? In 1958 the Great Leap Forward was a Chinese policy designed to start an industrial revolution across China.
The responsibility of the origins of the Cold War often triggers questions among historians yet both powers should be blamed for taking part in it and how the fear from unpaid reparations from Russia, Stalin’s fear of the nuclear weapon and Stalin’s fear of the Truman Doctrine. Through most analyses, the fault was often given to Stalin’s ambitions to expand communism in Europe, a conventional idea of the Orthodox school. Other historians revised this idea therefore blame the United States’ actions for the origins of the Cold War, which were analyses of the Revisionists. Though Later, the Post-Revisionist school was adopted; its goal was not to blame any side but focused on examining “what” caused the start of it. Even though, both sides have claimed responsibility for their actions, Stalin’s intentions should be seen as defense actions from the West therefore, the United States is mostly responsible for the start of the Cold War.
MacArthur does mention his own over confidence that led to him continually advance closer to the Yalu River provoking a large scale attack from the Chinese. The success of the Inchon landings marked a turning point in the war, the aim changed from containing communism to rolling it back it also marked a large boost in morale during the war. Although MacArthur was working from intelligence suggesting that neither the Chinese nor the Soviets would get involved, he should have been more careful to not provoke the Chinese and should have taken their first attack as a warning. MacArthur also mentions the new aim of Chinese at the end of the source, he claims that their ultimate goal was to completely destroy all UN forces in Korea which is quite accurate; the Chinese pushed US forces all the way back behind the 38th parallel and retook the capital city Seoul. These actions by without a doubt prolonged the war and caused the US to change its goal back to the original aim to maintain the 38th parallel, however was this due to MacArthur’s reckless actions or China’s
The Second Red Scare In1945 when world war two had ended due to Japan surrendering, the United States and soviets had become the two new superpowers. They were fighting so much that it created the cold war at the end of the war. During this war the soviets wanted to spread communism and the United States wanted to contain it. This time period was known as The Second Red Scare (ohiocentralhistory.org). Truman hastily enacted plans to contain communism in America after seeing that Communist in China had almost full control of country (slideshare.net).
In order to stop communism the United States did very unconstitutional acts and made many enemies with our cause. When North Korea tried to take over South Korea, the U.S. immediately saw a threat to the Truman doctrine’s man principle and sent troops over to Korea to fight and stop communism. When we began to help, the United States soon realized we were fighting in a style of war we never faced before. Many of the soldiers sacrificed their lives because America was very eager to contain communism any way we could. We gained control after the deaths of over 60,000 of our men were killed in the line of duty.
Erick Romero 10/19/14 2A Explain the origin(s) of the Chinese Civil War, and to what extent was the Communist victory due to the use of guerrilla warfare In the early 20th century, China ran into political turmoil. With the revolution in 1911, in which the last dynasty, the Manchu dynasty was overthrown. The new Republic failed to set hold on China and warlord era would start. But China continued to be oppressed by many foreign powers because it lacked a strong central government. The Chinese Civil War was caused by two opposed political parties, the communists and the nationalists, to see who would be able to restore order and regain central power over China to bring it back to its glory.
This too was against the advice of knowledgeable people such as Stimson. Decisions such as this one created a greater distance between the United States and Russia; giving Russia substantial reason to enter a war against the US. Truman continued in a downward spiral, setting himself and the United States up for a war with each action he took. The Truman Doctrine served as Truman’s declaration for war, after Stalin and Churchill already issued theirs. Aside from the general aspects of the doctrine, Truman used it as a platform to validate a large economic aid program.
He claims that states wish to maximize their relative power position and this leads to uncertainty about the real intensions of other states. He concludes that the world is condemned to perpetual great power competition and distrust which will ultimately always leave us on the brink of war. In his article he questions whether powerful China would accept US military forces in its backyard. He also expects that the United States would stop at nothing to subdue China’s growth in Asia and stresses that the tragedy of great power politics is the distrust and uncertainty between