3/20/09 NOTES

NOTES FOR 3/20/09
sorry they're late!

1950 Korean War

• NK invaded SK
• Truman invoked containment policy(contain communism)
• hisorically korea unified. split N and S after WWII
• effort to reunify not expected

Containment Theory

• Kennen argued that the Soviets were naturally expansionists but that if they were confronted they would become cautious and back down

Korean War

• SU boycotting UN on the day the US proposed sending UN peacekeeping force to Korea
• Under UN flag US aids SK
• 10/15/1950- US marines surprise landing at Inchon behind enemy lines
• Gen. MacArthur pushed for an all out war of liberation and unification of his troops
• Truman authorized carrying war to NK but encouraged MacArthur not to bother China
• MacArthur pushed US troops too close to Y. River and China sent troops into war on NK side and pushed McArthur back to SK
• Truman ordered him to seek truce at 38th parallel
• challenged the president and was fired in 1951
• after elections of 1952, Eisenhower administration negotiated, re-established 38th parallel

Post-Korean War

• US announced plan to re-arm germany
• NATO's military forces increased
• 1951- US signs formal peaece treaty w. Japan and Jap-Amr security pact giving the US base rights on Okinawa and mainland Japan
• US aquired base rights in Morocco and Saudi Arabia
• 1950-Congress app. $52 mil in military assistance in Latin America
• 1952- US assisted France in move against "communist: led ind. in Indo-China
• US proved military assistance to the Phillippines to leftist rebels
• 1951-US, Australia, New Zealand(ANZUS) collective security act
• atomic energy commission created to succeed Manhatten project1948- US allied with all white apartheid gov't of S. Africa
• all due to heightenend concern for nat'l security and strong anti-communist/containment thinking

Organized Labor Taft-Hartly Act

• 1947- Labor Management Relations Act(Taft-Hartly) organized by COngressional opponents of organized labor
• law wipes out union gains during 1930
• limited boycotts
• limited acceptance("closed shops")
• limited power to conduct strikes that pres. judged againted national interest
• strengthened discipline of union's members
• required leaders to sign off not belonging to Communist Party or other subversive organization
• Truman vetoes but Congress overrides
• elected 1948. CIO expels 13 unions 1/3 membership(pro-soviet)