POLI 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Decolonization, Dean Acheson, No Reflection

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 360
• Professor: T V Paul

Document Summary

China taking huge risk considering it could"ve been attacked by us. China not failing helped improve status in war. The korean war; the strategy of guerrilla warfare. Then china intervene in side of n. korea. Incheon landing (douglas mcarthur: occupied bit of s. kor, general of us army. Us push n. kor forces beyond 38th parallel separating two countries. Us had to retreat in this push: war lasted 3 years until armistice agreed upon. 1st test of collective security provisions in un charter. Kor div. between n (ussr) and s (allied forces) after ww2. N forces cross yalu r. to confront us forces. Lots of ppl baffled by china ability to withstand, and not get beaten (push. Failure of deterrence, chinese threaten intervention but did not successfully influence us decision-makers. Us convince that they would not cross yalu r. Humiliation for us, this and vietnam (did not win sufficiently) 1: contain n. korea offensive, retain sq: objective: liberate n korea.