USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -Truman and General Douglas MacArthur in 1951, during the Korean War. MacArthur, who commanded the troops of the United Nations, wanted to use American air power to attack the People’s Republic of China. Truman refused, fearing that an American attack on China would bring the Soviet Union into the war.

Detailed explanation-3: -He added: “I do not think [war with Russia] is inevitable. I think it is a very dangerous possibility.” Remote or Real? General MacArthur insisted that Russia “will not necessarily” intervene if the U.S. follows his program for Korea.

Detailed explanation-4: -As U.S. and United Nations forces turned the tide of battle in Korea, MacArthur argued for a policy of pushing into North Korea to completely defeat the communist forces.