CONSEQUENCES /METHODS OF CONTAINMENT

what were the things after the war?

a lot of casualties, noirth support from china which developed a communist dictatorship and became a nuclear power

what did the war show? what did some think?

that usa had wills and means to contain communism and some thought truman was weak, he accepted that north was communist

which were the 2 options basic?

alliances and developing powerful weapons

what were alliances about? HOW did ussr see this?

the SEATO and CENTO were forned, and usa gave advice money and arms to them and those counties had to supress communist influence; ussr saw all this as aggressive

what was developing powerful weapons about?

usa developed their first atomic bomb, and had then an arms race with ussr

FRONT: WHY DID THE KOREAN WAR LEAD DIRECTLY TO THE CREATION OF SEATO AND CENTO?

so there wasnt any more communist comeback at such scale that before seemed hiding= THIS MEANT THAT THE USA COMMITTED ITSELF TO DEFENDING GLOBAL ALLIES WITH MONEY AND ARMS, INCREASING SOVIET FEARS OF CAPITALIST AGGRESSION

FRONT: WHY IS THE KOREAN STALEMATE (1953) ACTUALLY CONSIDERED A "VICTORY" FOR THE POLICY OF CONTAINMENT?

because it seemed to end because of lack of soviet action and not american, meaning that the us resisted and reduced communism in korea = THE WAR ENDED WITH SOUTH KOREA FREE OF COMMUNIST CONTROL THIS MEANT THAT WHILE THE COST WAS 1.4 MILLION DEAD, THE USA PROVED IT HAD THE "WILL AND THE MEANS" TO SUCCESSFULLY CONTAIN COMMUNIST EXPANSION