Modern satellite image of North and South Korea at night. Notice the lack of lights in North Korea due to lack of power.

Modern satellite image of North and South Korea at night.

Notice the lack of lights in North Korea due to lack of power.

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