HIST 2340W Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: United States Information Agency, Kim Il-Sung, Syngman Rhee
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10/23/2019 - us diplomatic history fall 2019 professor hershberg. Eisenhower seeks an end to the conflict in part of american frustration with limited war. The soviet union made north korea attack (kim il sung visited moscow in april and promised a surprise attack that would win the war in three days). Soviet relations with china influenced stalin"s decisions on korea: washington will now allow the loss of taiwan. Civil war in korea: 1945 the conflict within the south and the conflict between south and north. In the south, people"s committees resisted the rightist state of president syngman rhee backed by the united states. Peasant uprisings, leftist-initiated labor strife, and guerrilla warfare claimed tens of thousands of lives => the major war was an extension of the ongoing civil war. Enabled the chinese communists to consolidate their revolution at home and gain international prestige by battling americans. Bolstered japan and its alliance with the us.
