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The Korean War ………in context

The significance of an event is not only determined by what actually happens…… ……but also by its PLACE in a SEQUENCE of events

End of Second World War

Yalta - February 1945

Potsdam - July 1945

Atomic bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 1945

Ideological gap

Spread of Communism

Stalin’s satellite states

Iron curtain speech From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Stalin’s reply Churchill is a warmonger

Truman doctrine Key word = containment the policy of the United States “to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."

Marshall Aid Marshall Aid took the form of fuel, raw materials, goods, loans and food, machinery and advisers. It jump-started rapid European economic growth, and stopped the spread of Communism.

Aid in dollars

Cominform Communist Information Bureau to coordinate actions between Communist parties under Soviet direction.

Tito and Yugoslavia

Czechoslovakia Communism imposed on an unwilling nation

Battlefield Berlin

Berlin Blockade and Airlift

A symbolic conflict

Plans for NATO announced

NATO An armed attack against one or more of them shall be considered an attack against them all. if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force.

Comecon an economic organization of communist states

Meanwhile….

..and

Russian atomic bomb

Communism spreads to China

USSR support...

Spotlight Korea

General MacArthur

Stage 1 - North Korea invades South Korea

Stage 2 - UN forces under General MacArthur counter attack

Stage 3 - UN forces advance into North Korea towards China

Stage 4 - Chinese forces invade South Korea

Stage 5 - stalemate (it takes three years to agree an armistice)

Death of Stalin

…The Cold War conflict shifts back into Europe. THE BIG QUESTION: will the death of Stalin result in a THAW?