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The Korean War

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. Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 1945. Atomic bomb.

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The Korean War

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  1. The Korean War ………in context

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

  3. End of Second World War

  4. Yalta - February 1945

  5. Potsdam - July 1945

  6. Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 1945 Atomic bomb

  7. Ideological gap

  8. Spread of Communism

  9. Stalin’s satellite states

  10. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Iron curtain speech - 1946

  11. Churchill is a warmonger Stalin’s reply

  12. 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." Truman doctrine - 1947

  13. 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. Marshall Aid - 1947

  14. Aid in dollars

  15. Cominform - 1947 • Communist Information Bureau • to coordinate actions between Communist parties under Soviet direction.

  16. Tito and Yugoslavia - 1948

  17. Communism imposed on an unwilling nation Czechoslovakia - 1948

  18. Battlefield Berlin

  19. Berlin Blockade and Airlift

  20. A symbolic conflict

  21. Plans for NATO announced

  22. 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. NATO - 1949

  23. Comecon - 1949 • an economic organization of communist states

  24. Meanwhile….

  25. ..and

  26. Russian atomic bomb - 1949

  27. Communism spreads to China

  28. USSR support...

  29. Spotlight Korea - 1950

  30. General MacArthur

  31. Stage 1 - North Korea invades South Korea

  32. Stage 2 - UN forces under General MacArthur counter attack

  33. Stage 3 - UN forces advance into North Korea towards China

  34. Stage 4 - Chinese forces invade South Korea

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

  36. Death of Stalin

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

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