Post-war+Asia+1st+Period

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__Beginning Summary__ We will be taking an in-depth yet brief look at Post-war Asia and the many different conflicts. Most of the conflicts in Asia eventually erupted into different wars throughout the years. Communism played a huge role in post war Asia, and take a look at how the Americans felt about those issues. We will also be talking about the successes and downfalls of those wars and what the US did to help them out.

__// Korean War (Causes, results, and long term effects //__ The Korean War was fought over many different issues that divided the nation. After World War II the United States drew its 40,000 soldiers from Korea and left a mere 472 officers known as the Korean Military Advisory group. South Korea was only given light weapons while North Korea was heavily equipped with tanks and other armored vehicles. The fact that the US had left Korea along with the North Koreas desire to unify the two nations is what It was this division that led to the Korean war. North Korea invaded South Korea on a calm morning June 25 1950. This invasion was the first attack of many during a long and bloody battle known as the Korean war. There were many results that came about from the Korean war. For one the nation was divided into two Nations, North and south Korea. Their political policies haven't changed much and that is why it's a good thing that North Korea didn't conquer South Korea. If the North would of conquered the South It is very likely that South Korea would also be under Communist rule. This would of been a disaster for their economy and people as Kim Jong Il would have been their leader.

__//Success of Mao Tse-Tung vs. Nationalists in China ( U.S. reaction to Communist Takeover)//__

Mao Zedong, is also known as Mao Tse-Tung__.__ The war between 1893-1976, was a Chinese revolutionary, guerrilla warfare was the type of strategy they used, poet, political theorist, and leader of the Chinese Revolution. Mao Zedong was the architect and father of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). The (PRC) is still China today. Mao led the (CPC) Communist Party of China against the (KMT) Chinese Nationalist Party, Chiang Kai-Shek's Kuomintang. Mao transformed China from a peasant based society into a major industrialized world power. Mao is still known as a controversial figure to this day. Mao is still to this day loved in China. He is a very important figure in China's history. China still has a picture of Mao Hanging in The Forbidden City. The U.S's reaction to the communist take over was that they felt like they lost China in a way because they don't agree with communism. The United States after Zedong won still supported Chiang Kai-shek and the Republic of China, which latter turned into Taiwan.
 * Chinese civil War was a war fought between the Kuomintang (KMT of Chinese Nationalist Party), the governing party of the Republic of China and the Communist Party of China (CPC) China wanted to split it self into two divisions. Which led to main land China and Taiwan . The war started in 4/1927. **__http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War__**


 * __Japan Reconstruction__**


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// Douglass MacArthur vs. Truman on Military Policy in Korea // >> MacArthur began true to form, with a swashbuckling landing at Inchon in South Korea. He took the enemy by surprise, liberated Seoul in eleven days and, by October 1st of 1950, brought UN forces—primarily composed of Americans—back to the 38th parallel that the North Koreans had crossed. MacArthur now wanted a “hot pursuit”, and Truman authorized him to cross the 38th parallel. >> Truman, however, added a crucial strategic condition: Do not to provoke the Chinese to enter the war, lest that should spark World War III and possible nuclear Armageddon! >> Right around then, things began going wrong, not only in the war effort but also in the relationship between MacArthur and Truman. >> When the two men met–for the only physical meeting of their lives–on a tiny coral islet in the Pacific, MacArthur tellingly greeted his commander-in-chief but failed to salute. The two men then met alone, before inviting others to join them. Truman made clear his overarching concern, one that Clausewitz would have approved of: to keep this a “limited” war, meaning a war to meet one single objective—rebuffing Communist aggression in Korea—without risking an escalation into what Clausewitz would have called an “absolute” war. []
 * General MacArthur and Harry S. Truman had a large disagreement about how the Korean war should be fought. General MacArthur believed that the best way to win the war was to use tactics. Harry S. Truman believed that strategy was the best way to win the Korean war to be won. Nuclear warfare was also considered as a solution to the war. Here's the story of what went down!
 * In June of 1950, Communist forces from North Korea poured south across the 38th parallel in an all-out attack on South Korea. Harry Truman, having come to power late in life, was the American commander-in-chief and had already made history by dropping the first and only two atomic bombs on Asian cities just five years earlier. He knew immediately and instinctively that this Communist attack had to be reversed or contained. And there to execute this purpose, in theory, was Douglas MacArthur, the commander of the United Nations forces in the region, as well as a certified American Hero from World War II and a notorious prima donna.

In conclusion, the Korean war was fought for approximately three years. It lasted from June 25,1950 up until July 27,1953. So this war was basically a military conflict between South Korea and North Korea. It was also a result of the physical division of Korea by an agreement of the allies at the end of WWII. The aftermath of the war was different in both North and South Korea. As for the Chinese civil war, it was fought between the governing party of the Republic of China and the Communist party of China. They were fighting for the control of china which ended up dividing China into the Republic of China and Mainland china. The two nations fell apart in June 1946 which entered them into a state of civil war that lasted 3 years.