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 United States can learn from the Korean War that communism is spreading and that the United States is not ready for a war with the soviet union and their allies. China, after being taken over by the Soviets, had become involved with communism. Since communism was spreading, the US initiated a war that they were not ready to undertake. We must learn that we can not under estimate other countries. We under estimated the Chinese and they then joined the Korean War.

The US did have aims in Korea. The US wanted to remove North Korean troops from South Korea and this was able to happen thanks to the UN. The US kept pushing and then later on got pushed back because of their ambition. Even though we got pushed back, the UN helped the US achieve the first goal which was remove the North Koreans from South Korea.
The person who allowed the US to invade North Korea, and the one who underestimated the Chinese, was General MacArthur. He had made these decisions on his own and should have listened to Truman but had decided otherwise. He pushed too far past the boarder and should have stopped when he successfully removed the North Koreans from South Korea. Since he was not listening and made very dangerous decisions, he was removed from the role of Commander.

In the North Korean war there was a total of 1.4 billion casualties. Most of the casualties were on North Korea and Chinas side. The UN and the US had the least amount of casualties with 34500 deaths.

The US did successfully remove North Korean troops from south korea but the US has many other things to worry about. We need to make sure we do not underestimate other countries and make sure we are prepared. We were not prepared for the North Korean war. We need to make sure we understand that communism is spreading and they have many allies that make them strong.