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How did the Korean War affect tensions between the USSR and the USA?

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How did the Korean War affect tensions between the USSR and the USA?

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-->Prompted a rapid and serious escalation of the Cold War
between the United States and the USSR
-->First direct clash between communist and American forces
--> Provoked USA and USSR to increase military spending and expand their nuclear arsenals

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-->The war increased tension between the USSR and China as they squabbled over who should pay the bill for it.
-->The Chinese came to feel that the Soviet Union was both an unreliable and demanding ally and took greater steps to ensure independence from the USSR in the years following the war.
-->In 1960, China broke from the Soviet Union in an event known as the Sino-Soviet Split, creating tension amongst all communist powers.

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--> There was more Chinese military injured, wounded or missing compared to the UN and the USA.
-->The war increased tension between the USSR and China as they squabbled over who should pay the bill for it.
--> The Chinese came to feel that the Soviet Union was both an unreliable and demanding ally and took greater steps to ensure independence from the USSR in the years following the war.
-->In 1960, China broke from the Soviet Union in an event known as the Sino-Soviet Split, creating tension amongst all communist powers.

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-->Chinese Communists were able to upgrade their armed forces
--> Received substantial Soviet military assistance, including up-to-date Soviet tanks, artillery, and some 3,000 warplanes
-->The Korean War was the first time China could legitimately say it had defeated a foreign power in more than a century.
-->Boost to the national psyche was massive
-->If there ever is a WW3, then China do not have to fight a 2 front war, as North Korea is under China control
-->China reinstated as a normal country or finally became a normal country, one with respect
-->Proved to the USSR  that China was an ally with great potential even with outdated military technology

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-->UN failed to achieve its objective for a "unified, independent and democratic government" for Korea.
--> The UN operation was scarred by both major misjudgements(when General MacArthur assured President Truman that the Chinese would not intervene in the war just before UN forces crossed the 38th parallel in October 1950) and substantial damage both to property and life. Approximately 4 million Koreans died as a result to the war, and countless others were made homeless and destitute
--> UN action had only been possible as a result of America's refusal to admit communist China to the UN and the Soviet's protest against this decision between January and August 1950
--> Military action was made possible by the presence of American troops that had been stationed in Japan since 1945
-->It could be argued that the United States used the UN to reinforce foreign policy over the Korean War. The US was determined to end the aggression of North Korea in June 1950 .The Security Council resolutions and the Un flag gave the enterprise the appearance of an international coalition against aggression. The Soviets claimed that the UN had been used as a capitalist tool against Communism.

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-->UN action over Korea showed that it was more purposeful than the League of Nations had ever been. Military sanctions had been used to reverse an act of aggression supported by the USSR and communist China.

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-->After the war, North Korea and South Korea remained divided.Families were broken up by the war and lived on opposite sides of the demilitarised zone, unable to visit or even communicate with each other.
-->It has more military killed and wounded than North Korea.
-Near total devastation of North Korea's economic
and agricultural infrastructure
--> The US dropped more than 250000 bombs on Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea.
--> Bombing obliterated much of the country's agricultural lands and most of its transportation system
--> Due to a combination of constant bombing, emigration, disease
and famine, North Korea's population declined by 12 percent from
1949 to 1953.
-->an estimated 1.2 million North Koreans –especially
the most educated members of the society –
fled south during the war. This brain drain, coupled with North Korea's international isolation and repressive policies, made the country slow to recover from the war.

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-Gave Japan a source of tremendous economic growth
-Americans bought Japanese goods in huge quantities, accounting for 60 to 70 percent of all Japanese exports
-Massive influx of dollars during the Korean War allowed Japan to more than double its imports in just two years
- Japan quickly approached economic superpower status and became one of the world's wealthiest countries.

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- Conflict left half of Korea under communist control
- Fear of domino theory was to impact on US foreign policy decisions for the next 20 years
-War led to massive American rearmament. Defence budget shot up to 48 billion in 1951 and 60 billion by 1952
-Korean War had a further legacy as well with 50000 American soldiers killed
-First war that the US entered and did not win outright
- Impacted interest rates charged to borrowers by banks and other creditors.
-While the majority of U.S. intelligence capabilities were directed at the Soviet Union, U.S. officials still misunderstood the exact nature of the relationship between the USSR and its allies and satellites, including China and North Korea.
-U.S. intelligence capabilities had declined dramatically. Rapid demobilization of intelligence units, severe budget constraints, and the need to concentrate all available resources on the Soviet Union crippled the Far East Command’s intelligence apparatus and blinded U.S. officials to events occurring in North Korea and China.
- American officials consistently still overestimated the influence of the Soviet Union on the actions of other communist states.

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-  The United States  had lesser military killed and missing and wounded compared to China and North Korea.
- Served as a precedent for American efforts to contain the spread of communism throughout Asia and the world.
-Proved that American involvement could limit communist expansion
-When communist influence appeared to be spreading in Southeast Asia in the 1960s and Central America in the 1980s, the precedent of the Korean War, which is known as the Truman Doctrine, justified American intervention
-USA managed to prevent South Korea falling into communist hands
-USA made a series of alliances including one with the Philippines and in 1951, they signed the ANZUS Pact with Australia and New Zealand.
- The USA made the decision to help rebuild Japand and a final peace treaty was signed with Japan and a final peace treaty was signed with Japan in 1951 signalling the end of Us occupation
- Boosted GDP growth through government spending, which in turn constrained investment and consumption.
-demonstrated America's willingness to combat aggression, strengthened President Eisenhower's hand in Europe as he sought to organize European military defense under the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and insured that the United States would pursue its military buildup