Korean War Lessons

It is 1952. A new president, Eisenhower, has been elected in the US. Your task is to write a report for him on what lessons the United States can learn from the war. Your report should advise the President on:


•the US aims in Korea
•how the support of the UN helped
•how far the US achieved its aims
•whether MacArthur should have been allowed to invade North Korea
•why MacArthur was removed
•the military and civilian cost of war

The Korean War has brought us to the point of realizing the deadly spread of communism. Therefore, us going into full on war with the Soviet Union and the allies she has created such as China, would be a bad idea due to lack of preperation. Because of the rapid spread of communism throughout the world America made a decision to wage war in Korea, for north korea violated the borders of an America territory. We ultimately underestimated the abbilities of China and took their warnings of joining the war more seriously we wouldnt have pushed into north korea.

In the Korean was we can put partial blame on General MacArthur. He is the one at fault for tantalizing and underestimating the chinese. His defiance of the UN created the threat of the Chinese when he pushed his way into North Korea. The blaten defiance should not have been allowed by the U.S government and we should have removed troops as soon as Northern Korean armies had been forced out. MacArthurs removal from the Commanding position was absolutly the right decision.


The casualties of the Korean War could be totaled up to 1.4 billion. China and North Korea do carry the greater of the casulaties however, Korea itself carried the most with North Korea being the most and South Korea coming next with 570,000 civilians and soldiers killed. American and UN soldiers had the least amount of soldiers and civilian casulties with 34,500 being the death toll.

In conclusion to make the war efforts better in the future we need to prepare the U.S army way in advance and not plunge into full war on the whim. We need tactics and planning, putting all countries involved at the top of the game and not ignoring anything. We must assume that all countries are a great threat and should be prepared from all sides.

The War in the Pacific

Read Chapter 25-3, The War in the Pacific (Stop at the end of page 790) and answer the following questions. These are due at the beginning of class Friday. Title: War in the Pacific Labels: Atomic_Bomb, Truman, Pacific_War, Japan, MacArthur, Battle_of_Midway, Manhattan_Project, Iwo_Jima.

1. What was the importance of the Battle of Midway?
Its importance was that it was a turning point in the Pacific War and WWII for america. America was deffinatley the most prepared in this battle and caught the japanese with their boats on the deck. They destroyed air craft carriers and planes. Japanese officials even said the it avenged pearl harbor.

2. What strategy did the United States adopt in fighting Japan?
They began island hopping taking each island as they moved towards japan.

3. Why did the Japanese fight so hard on Iwo Jima?
The japanese had so many troops on Iwo Jima that the americans had to fight hard. Also if they took Iwo Jima they would only have to take Okinawa in order to bomb japan.

4. Why did the Allies believe Okinawa was a foretaste of an invasion of Japan?
This battle cost thousands of american lives and was long and tough. This allowed us to realize that in order to invade japan more lives would be lost and more time needed.

5. What was the Manhattan Project?
The creation of the atomic bomb led by General Leslie Groves and by American Scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer.

6. Ultimately, why did President Truman decide to drop atomic bombs on Japan?
He felt that it was the only way to end the war. He gave japan the chance to surrender and when they didnt he dropped the bomb.