SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 EDITOR FAITH BRINGS

The Purpose for The Origin of

Fighting in the Cold War
Korea and the and the
News that MAPS OF OUR WAR Reason for Our LETS READ AND GET TO
CONFLICT
Surrounded WE WILL HAVE MAPS ON Involvement KNOW OUR HISTORY!
THE COLD AND KOREAN
WAR TERRITORIES FOR A
VISUAL

IMPORTANT EVENTS
COMMUNISM THE LEADING CAUSE FOR THE COLD
AND KOREAN WAR
RED SCARE IN AMERICA

Timelines

The USA and the Cold War in Europe Korean War

THE BERLIN BLOCKADE AND AIRLIFT THE THIRTY-EIGHTH PARALLEL

June 1948
The line of latitude that separates the
A new currency was introduced in order northern and southern portions of the Korean
to try and make the regions under the control of peninsula.

America, Britain and

France, combined, a After WII, Stalin and the
successful region.
Communism: Soviet government created
A way of organizing a society in which the influence in the north. While
After WII, Germany was government owns the things that are used to we did the same for the
split into four regions. make and transport products (such as land, oil, South, backing Syngman
Stalin's fear was that factories, ships, etc.) and there is no privately Rhee.

Berlin would become a owned property

capitalist centre within June 1950

Lead to conflict when North

Korea attacked the South. President Harry Truman
then sent troops in to protect South Korea.

Depicts the situation in Europe in 1946 was

Europe around the time of becoming increasingly
V-E Day. Soviet troops (in divided by the "iron curtain"
red) were able to secure seen in this map. Countries
Eastern Europe, while the to the east of the orange line Black Line is the Thirty-eighth Parallel
other Allies worked to win remained/became
the West.
communist following WWII.

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INCHON INVASION
THE BLOCKADE
Truman hoped to build a broad coalition
24 June 1948.

against the aggressors from the North by enlisting

Soviet Union blocked routes between West
support from the United Nations. As a result, the
Berlin and West Germany. Stalin Wanted forces of
Council voted
the West to surrender their region, via famine. but it
unanimously to
didn't happen. Airplanes dropped goods in three
" re p e l t h e a r m e d
airports in West Berlin in response to the blockage.

attack" of North
THE AIRLIFT Korea.

Food, clothes, medical supplies, plus

General Douglas
gasoline and coal were sent. Stalin believed that it
MacArthur was the
would be impossible for the West to continue
UN's (United Nations)
supplying Berlin, he was wrong.

force's commander
THE END OF THE BLOCKADE that launched the
amphibious assault
Stalin wanted us to leave Berlin and he
(involving forces
wanted to abolish this new currency.

landed from the sea)

May 1949.

c o d e n a m e d
He found out that he was wrong when he realized
Operation Chromite
that the supplies were continuing to arrive, he lifted
at Inchon.

the blockade.

Inchon was located

ENTERING NATO
near Seoul, which
What was the significance of the decision to
had been taken by
join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)?

North Korea during the first months.

It was a message sent to the USSR, due to the

Berlin blockage.

The UN's forces were able to push the communist

forces back to the thirty-eighth parallel.
It was
They continued over the border into North
established in
Korea and were able to surprise the
a time of
communist, the northern forces reeled in
peace. Twelve
retreat.

W e s t e r n
countries THE YALU RIVER DISASTER
made a
W i t h G e n e r a l M a c A r t h u r, w e
promise to
continued to push the invasion further and
defend each
further into North Korea. The Chinese
other if and
warned us not to near their border, but
when crisis
MacArthur ignored the warnings and
arose. The
pressed ahead to the Chinese border at the
U S S R
Yalu River.

announced
that they would be testing their first nuclear bomb in
We saw an opportunity to create a complete
response to this "message."

indivisible democratic Korea and pushed the northern

army up to the Yalu
THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR
River, which borders
We had fought side by side against
China. With
Hitler and the Nazis with the Soviet Union.
anticommunism on
Soviet Union was a Communist country while
the rise at home,
we were a Capitalist country.
Truman relished the
idea of reuniting
Korea.

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1945 and 1989

His hopes were dashed on November 27, when over
Both of us had an atomic bomb, it was impossible 400,000 Chinese soldiers flooded across the Yalu
to go to war against each other. So instead of a face River.

to face battle, we engaged in a Cold War.

When our troops neared, China moved into North

A line was drawn, an iron curtain had fallen across Korea and drove us back below the thirty-eighth
Eastern Europe, which was controlled by the Soviet parallel. General Matthew Ridgway at this point
Union and us
became the driving force that stopped the Chinese
and regained the recently lost territory to the thirty-
TRUMAN DOCTRINE (IDEAS) eighth parallel.

In places where communism threatened to

expand, American aid might prevent a takeover. By GENERAL MACARTHUR GETS FIRED
vigorously pursuing this policy, we hoped that this When we got the lost territory back, Truman
would stop Communism from spreading.
decided to make peace with the Chinese to avoid any
continued fighting.

MARSHALL AID
$13 billion was oered in aid to the General MacArthur
countries that were trying to reconstruct. disagreed and
Because of this, it was possible to implement a rg u e d t h a t t o
Truman's containment policy. We believed if press the war
Europe was poor, it would be more likely to come against China
under the influence of Communism.
included using
nuclear weapons
Stalin then accused us of trying to dominate the on the mainland.
countries of Eastern Europe, he refused to allow He also wanted to
Soviet countries to accept aid due to his demand that
suspicion.
China surrender or
be invaded.

THE DOMINO THEORY

We were concerned that once one country STALEMATE
had fallen to Communism, nearby countries would When our forces had regained the territory
follow suit below the thirty-eighth parallel from
and before the Chinese, the two armies settled
l o n g into a prolonged stalemate. They
Communism continued to fight for two years before
would reach an ocial ceasefire occurred.

us.

END OF THE KOREAN WAR

July 27, 1953

THE USA AND THE COLD WAR IN THE WIDER The Korean War did not ocially end until
WORLD President Dwight Eisenhower signed an armistice.

WHAT CAUSED THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS?

1959

Fidel Castro, a left wing nationalist, took

power in Cuba.

Before Castro, the government was run by Colonel

Batistahad who had been a right wing military
dictatorship. The problem, we had many business
interests in Cuba. Bastisthad wanted this. he his
countrys government to run the American
companies in Cuba.

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Castro wanted to nationalize. he didn't care for this. In Despite the loss of life on both sides, the boundary
response, we stopped all aid to Cuba and stopped ended up being the same as when the war started.
importing sugar from Cuba. The only country willing Over 54,000 Americans died and well over 1 million
to still buy sugar was....the USSR (Union of Soviet Korean and Chinese lost their lives.

Socialist Republics).

The war directly lead to a massive military buildup

1960
per a secret document NSC-68 that greatly
They made an agreement, Russia would buy sugar increased defense spending. The point of this order
from Cuba and sell oil to Cuba.
was the ability to continue to wage the quite
expensive Cold War.

Castro declared Cuba a Communist country.

North Korea remains a communist dictatorship, and

We were believed that Fidel Castro was building sites South Korea remains under the control of Syngman
for USSR nuclear Rhee, a military strong man.

missiles in Cuba.

October 1962
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THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
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of taking serious risks. They were also praised for
avoiding a war. Us western folk, actually praised Most are from the sites I got my information.
Khrushchev's wisdom.

Our relationship improved, an emergency phone line
was set up between the White House in Washington
and the Kremlin in Moscow.The intention was for
both two sides to discuss any problems should they
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1963

A Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed, it was now

illegal to test nuclear arms in the atmosphere, in the
sea or even in space.

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