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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4925262.stm

News Story

By: Stephen Gibbs

BBC News, Havana

It connects to what we are studying in class because it shows the anniversary of a major victory over the US in the Cold War. Kennedy tried to have a communist dictator in Cuba be overthrown which failed and made the US look week. Also we're learning how they tried to contain communism since 1945 though China, Vietnam, North Korea, and now Cuba have all become communist nations.

It adds value to what I've already learned because I see 15 years after the Cold War the only predominate Communist nation around still celebrates a time when Communism essential won, also it shows how easily things come have become and escalated into World War 3.

Limitations faced with this new story is it only tells what the US did, but not why they did this or what they were trying to do with Castro or for that matter what kinda of leader Castro was that his own people wanted to kill him.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/history/britainsincethe1930s_clip01.shtml

News story and video.

BBC.

It connects to what we are studying in class because were studying the Cold War, and the arms race and testing of nuclear weapons was important for both Western and Eastern powers. It enhances what we've learned in class because we see the accidents of using nuclear materials and what a few select countries were doing during the Cold War in their race. Some limitations of this are produced by BBC so their intentions may have been to make Britian and USA look better than USSR.

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MWH p. 143-147
1. Background
a. Explain the evolution of control of Korea from 1910 to 1948-Korea was Originally controlled by the Japanesse but when they were defeated in WWII the US and USSR decided to divide Korea among the 38th pararellel Russia in the North and America in the south.
b. What was the leadership situation in Korea in 1949? The UN supervised elections in the south, were Syngman Rhee won as president for the independent Republic. Russian's created the Democratic People's Republic of Korea which Kim II Sung won.
2. Why did the North invade the South?
Possible answers:
a. Kim's idea - It was his own idea.
b. Chinese role - The new Chinese Communist government may have encouraged them.
c. Russian role - Stalin wanting to test Trumans determinatoin.
d. S. Korea's role - South Korea was blamed for it, that they crossed the 38th Parallel.
3. What did the USA do?
a. Why did Truman decide to intervene?
i. He believed it was Stalin's doing trying to spread communism.
ii. Some American's though the appeasement of aggressors would happen again.
iii. Truman wanted to support UNO since Leauge of Nations failed.
iv. He was loosing popularity since he was in the democratic party and the Republicans criticized him for not taking action.
b. What nations joined the US in support of S. Korea?- Japan, though 14 other countries senty troops that were all lead my American General MacArthur.
c. Briefly summarize the course of the war in 1950- The UN quickly cleared the communists out of the south before then end of the Setpember. Truman then ordered a invasion of North Korea so that it would be a united Korea with free elections.
d. How and why did China get involved?- Because they were afraid America would keep going once they took over North Korea.
e. How did the war end?- The Chinese had sent such large forces the only other way may have been to drop atomic bombs which would lead to a full scale war.
4. What were the results of the war?
a. Korea - Left 4 million dead and 5 million homeless the country was devastated.

b. the US - Divided among people, some felt that they did well, others though that they gave up a on a good chance of getting rid of communism.
c. the UN -should it would follow through.
d. China - It showed China was a formidable opponent with a powerful army. China had stopped Korea from being unified.
e. the Cold War - Caused more tenison with China interving and North Korea now communist. Truman's plan for containment was failing because communism was spreading throughout the world.