The Korean War-An Experimental Analysis

Superior Essays
The Korean War, though has been in the dark for a while, had a significant impact on modern warfare and strategy. Allen Millett touches on the historical significance of the Korean War in “Introduction to the Korean War.” The Korean War brought new challenges and strategies for the Americans. This war was a different from some of the others that America has been involved in. This was what Millett describes as a “People’s War of revolutionary national liberation.” This conflict was surrounded by regional and global conflict due to “power intervention.” Peter Gries et al “Contentious Histories and the Perception of Threat: China, the United States, and the Korean War-An Experimental Analysis,” they explain the importance of modern governmental …show more content…
They also explain that the impact of the Korean War on US-China relation have received less attention lately. Peter explains that very little work has been done to explore how history controversies, the Korean War in particular, could matter to international relations. We know that those controversies had a lot of impact on decision-making and relations with foreign countries at the time. But the question is have we simply just moved forward from past events? Two primary groups they extracted from were Chinese and United States university students and high school students examining both what they believe to know and the fictional history textbooks that do not accurately depict what actually happened in the Korean War. Peter brought up a great point basically saying that the way our children are taught about historical events will impact the relations their generation may have with each …show more content…
I learned quite a bit doing this paper. Millet Brakes up the Korean War into three phases, he also describes these phases as “The People’s War or Liberation.” He also shows the ones behind the war, which are China and the Soviet Union with the North side of Korea and the United States and Japan with the South side. I had no idea the Japanese were apart of the Korean War and actually helped fight what we were helping with. Though Peter Gries et al brought up great information and analysis; they failed to actually involve hard facts of the Korean War, which made it weak to my topic. Peter Gries et al explained that the teachings of past historical controversies were not accurate to what actually happened. This raises a big issue because it gives newer generations the wrong impression of foreign powers, which could be very dangerous for future relations. The Korean War was a big turning point for Russia’s movement of government, the United States strategies for wars to come, and alter our relationship with the Japanese, and of course brought instability to both Koreas, even today we can see issues in

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    The United States found Soviet Union’s spread of communist threatening, and very closely resembling those of Hitler’s. The damage of World War II and Hitler’s influence on people made everyone see that something needed to be done about spreading radical forms of governments; communism was not something Americans were familiar so they felt the need to stop…

    • 761 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The shift from desiring a “unified democratic Korea” to a free south Korea, demonstrated a drastic change in American foreign policy. While America believed they were winning in Korea, they held onto their hopes for unifying Korea; however, as things started to look more grim, they shifted their ideology to remain victorious even in the face of failure. Being the hero of the Second World War, America was viewed as powerful and a force to be reckoned with, losing a war to such a small country, experiencing turmoil, would ruin America 's reputation. Therefore they needed to find a way they could avoid loss at all costs; however, Truman was unwilling to meet MacArthur 's requests for total warfare in Korea so, instead of contributing further into the war effort, Truman changed his policy to favour the containment of the status quo before the war in Korea. Once America achieved this goal by recapturing Seoul, the capital of South Korea, they began to negotiate an armistice with North Korea, under the guidance of Mao Zedong, allowing the end of the war, without it being viewed as a loss in other 'free ' nations.…

    • 1074 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Analysis President Truman’s determination for the U.S’s involvement in the Korean War can justify why the U.S was associated to the war and whether it’s reasonable to go help South Korea. The investigation analyzes the political pressures that Truman was under and the influences they had on his final decision to commit ground forces to Korea. This can be shown through the pros and cons of helping South Korea from communism and weaknesses in the U.S by their fear of the spread of communism in countries. Initially, bringing the invasion to the United Nations appeared the only reasonable course of action and was also a way of achieving a collective response to the invasion. Most people perceived the North Korean’s to move across the border to increase communist expansion.…

    • 2004 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The Korean War is one of the most well known wars due to the fact that it caused North and South Korea to split and it created allies around the world. North Korea is one of the most powerful and unpredictable countries in the world and it wants to defeat countries like South Korea and the United States. The Truman Doctrine, Policy of Containment and the Domino Theory all play a role on how the US did not want to see other countries become communist. China recently became a communist country so the US did not want Korea to be influenced by them since the idea of communism would spread around the world. Many American troops are stationed in South Korea now to help protect the citizens especially in Seoul, which is the capital of South Korea.…

    • 1597 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Korean War was “fought mutually for unknown and incommensurable(if not incomprehensible) goals “(Cummings.205) by the 2 most important sides, North Korea and the US together with the UN. Kim Il Sung decided to attack the south for several reasons and even though he risked the possibilities of the intervention of the U.S (which occurred), he downplayed its importance because he thought that his allies both Stalin (USSR) and Mao (Communist China) could and would take care of the U.S intervention. We can agree that the UN was the catalyst which led to the involvement of foreign nations. So its adequate to state that the foreign involvement of the U.S was justified. The joining and impact of the U.S army on the Korean conflict left Kim Il…

    • 712 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Korean War Analysis

    • 817 Words
    • 4 Pages

    A possible reason for the United States blockading Chinese trade beforehand can be attributed to the communist regime of China. Despite the document being written by the American side, China’s motivation for entering the war is very visible. A secondary source states that Mao emphasized China’s entrance into the war as it “would [maintain] and [enhance] the momentum of the Chinese communist revolution” (Yun-sik). In order to enhance its momentum, China needed to remove any obstacles in the way of the country, including the U.S., who had ignored China’s many attempts at political and economic venture. If China were to successfully settle its differences with the United States, the People’s Republic could have had an overwhelming amount of power and…

    • 817 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Truman had his troubles with domestic issues and so did Eisenhower. While Eisenhower saw more of the after effects of the cold war, it may have been Truman’s fault, ultimately, that the world was falling into a cold war, a Korean War, a Chinese’s War, and quite possibly the Third World War. However, Eisenhower promised changed in his campaign video when he ran against Truman. While Eisenhower did end the Korean war, the after effects of the Chinese conflict and the Indochina conflict with the French and Vietnamese stirred up a storm the “Kansas Cyclone” could not get out…

    • 1011 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    In the United States one of the big factors as to the reason America become involved the the Korean war was due to the Truman Doctrine. President Truman being fearful of the spread of communism created the Truman Doctrine. To guarantee that the U.S would support countries fighting against communism. This affected America negatively since they need to support South Korea in fighting the North. Which left the American economy in worse shape then it was.…

    • 1210 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Cold War Impact

    • 2553 Words
    • 10 Pages

    Stalin was seen as another “Hitler” for intention to control all of Europe. This conflict was what initially started the Cold War. An example of communist expansionism being stopped by the Americans was during the two major wars of the Vietnam and Korean War. Although these two wars had major impacts on our country,…

    • 2553 Words
    • 10 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    But according to Park, the position and the strategic value of the Korean Peninsula changed during the war through changes in the world situation as well as in the East Asian system. The U.S. policy makers tried to change their policies toward South Korea to reflect this new world…

    • 1101 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays