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The Korean War ………in context

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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

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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.

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?