Truman and Korean War

Election of 1948

• Rep. Control Congress

• Rep. – Tom Dewey – moderate

• Democrats Split– Harry S. Truman– Strom Thurmond– Henry A.

Wallace

Fair Deal• Min. Wage

• Soc. Sec.

• Clear Slums

• Low Income Homes

• TVA

• But lost on…

• Civil Rights

• Nat’l Health Ins.

• Repeal of Tariff

• Fed aid to Education

• Farm Incomes

• USSR takes control to 38th parallel

• 1948 – S. Korea - Rhee elected president

• N. Korea declares Peoples Republic

• North militarizes, South does not

• June 25, 1950 North attacks

• June 27th, U.N. reacts

• General Douglas MacArthur

– Pusan

– Invades Inchon

Mac Arthur on his own Mission• Communists

China’s threat

• Mac Arthur to the Yalu River

• “Volunteer” Chinese

• Back to the 38th parallel

April 11, 1951 – Mac Arthur fired

Peace Talks• June 1951• Panmunjon – 2

years• July 27, 1953

Truce• Police Action• Casualties

Demilitarized Zone