-
Democrats won the presidential elections and the republicans attempted to discredit Truman's foreign policy by claiming it was not tought against communism. Hence the democrats were blamed for the loss of China and accused of having closest communist.
-
-
Soviets managed to detonate their first atomic bomb which ended US's atomic monopoly which had served as an advantage over USSR.
-
CCP won the Chinese Civil war and was considered China's lost to communism.
-
Stalin had cautiously agreed to Kim's invasion plan althought he warned Kim that Russian would not intervene directly in the conflict.
-
US sponsored a resolution to the United Nations Security Council calling for military action against North Korea. 3 days later, Truman ordered American troops stationed in Japan into Korea.
-
MacArthur was not happy fighting a limited war and since the priority was to drive the communist forces behind the 38th parallel. He was relieved off his command by Truman.
-
A powerful counter attack, Operation Killer was launched
-
Operation RIpper followed
-
Peace talks started but dragged on for 2 years due to 2 obstacles.
- Issue on the repatriation of POW
-Stalin influence Mao to extract further concessions in return for ending the war -
Death of Stalin and the compromise on the matter of repatriation led to an armistic in july 1953.
