Consequences of the Korean War
- Republic of Korea and DPRK independent nations, separate states with different political ideologies
- MacArthur fired from his extreme actions to invade Beijing
- Human cost
- Korea itself was a disaster: country devastated, about four million Korean soldiers and civilians had been killed and five million people were homeless
- Changing roles of Vietnam and Japan
- America implements harsher policy of containment
- Truman can take satisfaction from having contained communism and could claim that this success, plus American rearment 'dissuaded world communism from further aggression'
- America implements harsher policy of containment
- China is recognized as an international power able to stop US from unifying China
- military performance of CCP was impressive, prevented the unification of Korea under American influence and was seen as world power. The fact that she was still not allowed seat in UN seemed even more unreasonable
- Brought new dimensions for Cold War, US-USSR relations
- U.S intervention into Korea is a deliberate action against communism and the USSR
- both sides tries to build up relations in Asia as well as Europe
- Chinese supports the Indo-Chinese communists for struggle of independence from France
- Americans tried to encircle China with bases: 1951 defensive agreements were signed with Australia and New Zealand, and in 1954 with these three states, with Britain and France set up the South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)
- Relations between USA and CHina were also poor because of Taiwan situation