PHYSICS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: World Politics, Nuclear Weapon, Pentagon Papers
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Mao"s ascendancy: unlikely a chinese initiative in north korea because china had little influence there, the north korean attack was an internal affair independent decision of. June 25th, 1950 100,000 north korean troops charged across the thirty eighth parallel into south korea. And he could make tough decisions without too much after thought. There was no doubt in the president"s mind that a soviet probing action was behind the north korean invasion . He saw it as essential to quash and deter communist belligerency or a third world war would be inevitable. Soviet union boycotted the un security council. To express its opposition to the presence of nationalist china. Us was convinced soviet union was behind the north korean move. Edward w. barrett: the relationship between the soviet union and the north koreans. [was] the same as that between walt disney and donald duck (pg. 69)
