Question

Help Pleaseeee.

I have to fill out a chart, a SWBS chart. It's The Korean War Chart, so you know some information.

I have most of it already i need the last few, and wikipedia nor anything else is helping?

I still need General MacArthur, and President Truman.

Answer 1

FOR EXMAPLE, i have China.
China WANTED to keep a safe zone so no country could interrupt it's reconstruction... BUT they worried that U.S. would break into China if the U.S. and South Korea were allowed into war... SO China planned a surprise attack which defeated American troops.

I pretty much need something like that for the last two, does anyone have any idea??

Answer 2

Truman wanted to be seen as a strong president who would stand up to communist expansion...
this site looks like it is on point http://www.shmoop.com/korean-war/politics.html

Answer 3

Okay, i was able to fill out the column for MacArthur. but i still don't know what to put for Truman, even after reading that. I don't understand what he wanted? to win, to be president? @kantalope

Answer 4

Truman was already president

Answer 5

that's right, i'm thinking of a chapter back. So him and Macarthur bother wanted to win the war? he just went about it differently?

Answer 6

Instead of putting he wanted to win the war, since i put that for MacArthur. i can put he wanted to end the war, right?

Answer 7

Truman mostly wanted to stop soviet expansion and in this context anything that look communisty: "Truman argued that the United States could no longer stand by and allow the forcible expansion of Soviet totalitarianism into free, independent nations, because American national security now depended upon more than just the physical security of American territory. Rather, in a sharp break with its traditional avoidance of extensive foreign commitments beyond the Western Hemisphere during peacetime, the Truman Doctrine committed the United States to actively offering assistance to preserve the political integrity of democratic nations when such an offer was deemed to be in the best interest of the United States." from: http://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/TrumanDoctrine

Answer 8

also remember that the 'lesson' from ww2 was that appeasement was bad

Answer 9

Okay, i see. so he wanted no trace of communism. But china, was trying to reconstruct back to communism and feared the U.S. involvement would backfire on them so they surprise attacked american troops.

What could i put in the so column then?

Answer 10

and thank you so much

Answer 11

Oh, nevermind. But China feared U.S. involvement in the war would backfire, SO China planned a surprise attack on american troops.

That works?

Answer 12

not so much backfire....China was trying to build a buffer zone of friendly countries along its border...same as Stalin was doing in Eastern Europe. The Soviet 'lesson' from ww2 was that you should not have enemies along your border. Keep enemy troops our of the motherland...so the chinese did not want a pro-US 'hostile' government along their border

Answer 13

'our' should be 'out'

Answer 14

oh okayy. alright, i think i got it then (:

You helped me a lottttt! Thanks so muchh!(:

Answer 15

gl