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The Korean War - Coggle Diagram
The Korean War
Consequences - Implementation of NSC-68
Transformation of US Foreign Aid Programme
Mutual Security Act 1951
Japanese Peace Treaty September 1951
Integration of West Germany
Treaties (ANZUS, SEATO) and Bases
Hydrogen bomb
Tripling of defence budget to $49.3bn (13.5% GNP)
Political costs to Truman
The war that caused Vietnam?
Korean War
First armed conflict of the Cold War
Korean Civil War
'The Forgotten war'
'The War before Vietnam'
The unfinished war
Watershed of containment
Korea
US reluctant occupiers
Mistrust of Syngman Rhee
He has a very high estimation of himself
Bit of a loose cannon
Talks about reunification of the peninsular
Soviets hear this and assume that he is speaking on behalf of America to turn the situation around.
Fear of 'leftist' agitation
Outside US defensive perimeter but test of US credibility