consequences of the Korean war

what did the Americans learn from the Korean war about the effectiveness of sending soldiers to fight a war

it was too expensive

it didn’t work very well

alliances with anticommunist countries

SEATO (south east Asia treaty organisations)

CENTO (central Asia and the middle east treaty organisation)

the US gave money, arms and advice in return the leaders of the countries suppressed communist influence on their own countries

how did the USSR react to the anti-communist alliances

• saw the alliances as aggressive

• accused the US or trying to encircle the communist world

building more powerful nuclear weapons

nuclear weapons would help act as a deterrent against communism, threatening