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The Korean War ………in context
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The significance of an event is not only determined by what actually happens…… ……but also by its PLACE in a SEQUENCE of events
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End of Second World War
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Yalta - February 1945
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Potsdam - July 1945
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Atomic bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 1945
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Ideological gap
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Spread of Communism
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Stalin’s satellite states
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Iron curtain speech - 1946 From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
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Stalin’s reply Churchill is a warmonger
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Truman doctrine - 1947 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."
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Marshall Aid - 1947 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.
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Aid in dollars
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Cominform - 1947 Communist Information Bureau to coordinate actions between Communist parties under Soviet direction.
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Tito and Yugoslavia - 1948
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Czechoslovakia - 1948 Communism imposed on an unwilling nation
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Battlefield Berlin
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Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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A symbolic conflict
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Plans for NATO announced
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NATO - 1949 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.
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Comecon - 1949 an economic organization of communist states
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Meanwhile….
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..and
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Russian atomic bomb - 1949
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Communism spreads to China
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USSR support...
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Spotlight Korea - 1950
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General MacArthur
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Stage 1 - North Korea invades South Korea
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Stage 2 - UN forces under General MacArthur counter attack
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Stage 3 - UN forces advance into North Korea towards China
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Stage 4 - Chinese forces invade South Korea
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Stage 5 - stalemate (it takes three years to agree an armistice)
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Death of Stalin
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…The Cold War conflict shifts back into Europe. THE BIG QUESTION: will the death of Stalin result in a THAW?
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