Background to Harry Truman and the
Korea
Truman
becomes President
Pacific Power, the Open Door, Japanese
Expansion
Open Door Notes,
Philippine Insurrection, Boxer Rebellion, Colonization of Korea, 21
Demands, Lansing-Ishii Agreement
The Cold War
Japanese Defeat and
Korean Liberation
U.S.
Troops Enter Korea, 1945
The Chinese Civil
War
Mao
Zedong and Jiang Jieshi
The China Lobby
Henry
Luce
Expanding Executive Power
Historical
Background: Presidents and Wartime from Washington to Truman
Truman Doctrine
The National
Security Act
A "Garrison State" ???
Civil
Liberties at Home [loyalty boards], Domestic Containment of labor,
African-Americans, Women
NSC-68
Korea
Map
Division at the 38th Parallel
Liberation and Separate Regimes
Syngmann Rhee, Kim Il Sung, People's Committees
Skirmishing at the 38th
Kim Il Sung
Syngman Rhee
People's
Committees in the South
South
Korea Guerrilla Activity Skirmishes
June
25th 1950
HST
and advisors, June 1950
HST
and Acheson
HST
and cabinet, June 1950
DRK
Offensives to the Inchon Landing
Map of Korea,
Korean War Korea
invasion maps, 1950-51
Picasso's
Massacre in Korea
MacArthur
and the Chinese , and the
"home by Christmas" offensive
Douglas
MacArthur Yalu
River Truman
and MacArthur
Chinese Counteroffensive
Truman Fires
MacArthur
Matthew
Ridgway Omar
Bradley MacArthur
and Ridgway
"Talking While Fighting"
Peace Talks,
on and off
The
war against the north
The War Comes Home
Red Scares
and Joe McCarthy
Joseph
McCarthy
Consequences
Militarization of the Cold War
Military-Industrial Complex
Presidential
Power
Anti-Communism and U.S. Politics
Vietnam