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Why did the USA get involved in Korea in 1950?

Why did the USA get involved in Korea in 1950?. Recall knowledge of steps to involvement Explain the reasons why Evaluate which factors you think were most important. Starter: Link them up!. 1. Japan + Korea = 2. China + USSR = 3. Shingman Rhee + Nationalism 4. Kim Il Sung + Nationalism

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Why did the USA get involved in Korea in 1950?

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  1. Why did the USA get involved in Korea in 1950? Recall knowledge of steps to involvement Explain the reasons why Evaluate which factors you think were most important

  2. Starter: Link them up! 1. Japan + Korea = 2. China + USSR = 3. Shingman Rhee + Nationalism 4. Kim Il Sung + Nationalism 5. NSC + Cold War 6. Truman + Doctrine 7. Mao + North Korea 8. Stalin + North Korea 9. North Korea + South Korea 10. Ideology + Communism

  3. Can you explain each reason why North Korea invaded the South? • Stalin’s assent • Mao’s assent • Mao feared Japan • ‘Unquestionably foolish’ US words and deeds • Stalin anxious about Japan • Stalin wanted USA and PRC entangled • Stalin wanted USA distracted • Stalin’s planes and tanks • Stalin’s assent • Kim Il Sung

  4. Why did the US get involved in Korea? Question: How far is it accurate to say that the US decision to get involved in Korea was driven by America’s anti-Communist position? • What is the main factor in the question? • What other factors will you debate in your essay?

  5. Task • You have 2 minutes on each factor. • You must begin to fill in the factor cards • When I shout change you need to pass it on so someone else adds to your factor card • Make sure you improve it each time • No repeating stuff! • Improving the explanations is key!

  6. 1. America’s anti-Communism • What was this? (Describe) • Why did it cause America to get involved in Korea? (Explain)

  7. 2. The changing world balance of power • What was this? (Describe) • Why did it cause America to get involved in Korea? (Explain)

  8. 3. McCarthyism and domestic political concerns • What was this? (Describe) • Why did it cause America to get involved in Korea? (Explain)

  9. 4. NSC 68 • What was this? (Describe) • Why did it cause America to get involved in Korea? (Explain)

  10. 5. Fears for Japan • What was this? (Describe) • Why did it cause America to get involved in Korea? (Explain)

  11. 6. The UN and lessons from History • What was this? (Describe) • Why did it cause America to get involved in Korea? (Explain)

  12. America’s anti-Communism

  13. The changing world balance of power

  14. McCarthyism and domestic political concerns

  15. NSC 68

  16. Fears for Japan

  17. The UN and lessons from History

  18. Essay Planning: Causation (causes essays) • Introduction Answer the question – how accurate is this view? What other factors are important – how important compared with the factor in the question? 2. Main Paragraphs (make sure paragraph 1 is on the FACTOR in the question!!!) 3. Conclusion

  19. Sentence Starters

  20. Sample Paragraph The role of US Anti-Communism was a fundamental cause of their decision to intervene in Korea because the intense fear of the Communist ideology which rejected Capitalism and political democracy underpinned all of the other reasons why Truman led the USA into the war For instance the ideological rivalries which had hardened in the form of the Cold War after 1945 drove the decisions that Truman and his advisors took in 1950. In 1947 Truman introduced the Truman Doctrine and followed the policy of Containment. Thus the USA would defend any country threatened by a Communist aggressor. Americans believed that their security would be greatly threatened in a world where more and more countries turned Communist. It was believed that these countries would refuse to trade with the US therefore damaging it’s economy. Greater than this it was feared that Communist countries would try to export their ideology to the US by persuasion or force. It was this ideological, underlying belief that directed US decisions to involve the UN and call for military intervention in order to contain the threat of Communism in Korea and prevent it’s feared spread in Asia. The fact that the US did not provide greater support to South Korea immediately prior to the invasion by the Northern forces in 1950 should not be seen as a lack of Anti-Communism, more a series of foolish underestimations of the likely hood of invasion by the NKPA and lack of planning on the part of the US. Thus Anti-Communism underpinned all of the other necessary causes for US intervention such as the shifting balance in world power after 1945 because without this deep-rooted fear, the changes in status and power relationships between China and the USSR would not have cause the US so much alarm. Similarly the role of US domestic pressure to intervene was ultimately a result of the fear of Communism amongst the American people which had been whipped into a frenzy by 1950.

  21. Paragraph planning grid

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