POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
KOREAS PARTITION
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Question
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Truman’s wish to use nuclear weapons in Korea
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the strategy of using brinkmanship in the Korean conflict
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Truman’s insistence on expanding the Korean War into China
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the strategy of a limited war in the Korean conflict
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Detailed explanation-1: -When MacArthur said, “There is no substitute for victory”, he was not trying to quip or to merely stress importance; he literally meant that there was an existential threat to the American way of life and that no alternative other than complete Allied victory would suffice.
Detailed explanation-2: -His speech is best known for its final lines in which he quoted an old army ballad: “’Old soldiers never die–they just fade away. ‘ And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away–an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty.
Detailed explanation-3: -Douglas MacArthur was an American general who commanded the Southwest Pacific in World War II, oversaw the successful Allied occupation of postwar Japan and led United Nations forces in the Korean War. A larger-than-life, controversial figure, MacArthur was talented, outspoken and, in the eyes of many, egotistical.
Detailed explanation-4: -MacArthur proposed his own plan for victory. He wanted a complete blockade of the Communist Chinese coastline. He wanted to bomb industrial sites and other strategic targets within China. He wanted to bring Nationalist Chinese troops from Formosa to fight in Korea.