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Soviet successful testing of Atomic Bomb
US intelligence detected traces of radioactivity in the Nothern Pacific. This was significant because it meant that US had underestimated the nuclear power of the Soviets and then US has lost their nuclear monopoly -
Nationalists quit China
This was significant as it meant that there was a new communist threat to US -
US increasing their atomic weapons level
Truman authorised the development of a thermonuclear or hydrogren bomb to increase their level of atomic weapons so as not to lose to Soviets. In a way, this was an indirect way of arms race -
Defensive Perimeter Strategy
Dean Acheson implied that Korea was not under US's defensive perimeter strategy. But US still intervened because they refused to believe it was Kim II Sung's decision. Instead, they felt that North Korea received instructions from Moscow. To which it caused the US to see the entire conflict through the Cold War lens. Which led them to take actions to prevent Korea from becoming communist -
Stalin agreed to Kim II Sung's invasion plans
Stalin agreed to Kim II Sung's invasion plans. On the condition that they would not be directly involved.
This was an example of how Stalin limited the nature of the war because he did not want Russia to be involved in a new war after WWII -
CCP and Stalin signed a treaty
CCP and Stalin signed a 30-year mutual assistance treaty in which Soviet Union promised to provide China with $300 million in credits -
US sponsored a resolution to call for actions against North Korea
US sponsored a resolution in the United Nations Security Council calling for military actions against North Korea. -
Truman ordered troops into Korea
Truman ordered troops into Korea showed how US viewed this in the Cold War lens because they were afraid Korea, which was near Japan, would turn communist. Hence, they took actions to prevent it from happening -
North Korea captured Seoul
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UN forces occupied toehold around Pusan
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Communist reoccupied Pyongyang and recaptured Seoul
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Operation Killer
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Operation Ripper
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Peace Talks started
Peace talks started but dragged on for 2 years. Showing the ideologial differences between the US and the Communist because they couldn't reach an agreement -
Death of Stalin
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Compromise from both sides and armistice