Communists in China
Essay by Patience Ley • May 12, 2016 • Study Guide • 257 Words (2 Pages) • 856 Views
Communists in China
- Chiang Kai-shek
- Nationalist leader of China
- U.S supported with $3 billion
- Corrupt
- Mao Zedong
- Communist leader
- ‘Red Army’
- Civil War In China
- Nationalists v. Communists
- 1944 to 1949
- Communists win; Chiang flees to Taiwan
The Cold War: The Korean War 1940s-1950s
- Japan-Korea Annexation treaty 1910
- Japan surrendered to the Americans in 1945, Koreans were left to pick up the pieces
- Temporary boarder near the 38th parallel set by the United Nations
- North Korea established a communist government
- South Korea established a democratic government
- June of 1950, communist North Korea crossed the 38th parallel
- United Nations had hearing on the issue
Rationale: Domino Theory
- The belief that communist states would spread in not stopped
- Unites States argued in favor of entering the war and help South Korea
- U.N immediately sent troops to help South Korea, led by General Douglas MacArthur
- MacArthur’s forces pushed back the North Koreans
- China, warned U.N forces to come hither
- McArthur did not heed the warning, and the PRC joined the war effort as allies with North Korea
- Chinese sent hundreds of thousands
- Two sides were soon locked in a struggle near the original 38th parallel boarder
Negotiations
- Prisoners of War held in South Korea and not want to return to the north
- Truce was signed in 1953
- A new boarder almost exactly where the 38th parallel once stood as temporary disorder
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