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