1. The Korean War

2. Warm Up – Let’s Discuss Examine the picture. What is happening?
What is the U.S. doing?
What do you think this picture means?

3. COLD WAR MAP ACTIVITY Get a copy of the world map at your table.
Where is the United States?
Where is the Soviet Union?

4. COLD WAR MAP ACTIVITY Where is the United States?
Where is the Soviet Union?

5. COLD WAR MAP ACTIVITY
Where is China?

6. COLD WAR MAP ACTIVITY
Where is China?

7. COLD WAR MAP ACTIVITY
Where is Cuba? North Korea? South Korea? Vietnam?

8. COLD WAR MAP ACTIVITY
Where is Cuba? North Korea? South Korea? Vietnam? Vietnam?

9. COLD WAR MAP ACTIVITY
Glue your completed map on page 94 in your notebook.
Get a copy of the guided notes about the Korean War

10. Domino Theory and the Policy of Containment
Domino Theory: the idea that if one nation falls to communism that the neighboring nations will fall one after the other

11. Domino Theory and the Policy of Containment
Containment: policy to prevent the spread of communism

12. The Korean peninsula was ruled by Japan before WWII
After WWII, it
was split along the 38th parallel

14. USSR in the North, USA in the South
Tensions rose
The north became communist

15. Kim Il Sung gained Stalin and Mao’s support for an invasion
Why would Stalin and Mao support this?
1950 – North Korea invaded South Korea

16. The USSR was boycotting the UN Security Council at this time
So, the rest of the Council voted to authorize military intervention in Korea

17. America claimed its actions in Korea were not acts of war – called their actions “police actions”

18. SUMMER 1950
North Korea invades South Korea
Hugely successful – why?
Halted at Pusan

19. FALL 1950 MacArthur arrives at Inchon
President Truman makes the reunification of Korea his goal
MacArthur pushes up to China
Can you predict what happens next?
FALL 1950

20. LATE FALL-EARLY WINTER 1950-1951
Mao Zedong sends reinforcements from China
UN forces are pushed past the 37th parallel
Escalates towards nuclear war
MacArthur fired!

21. 1951-1953 Stalemate is reached How?
President Eisenhower bombs N. Korean dams
Threat of atomic weapons
Stalin dies
Armistice is signed in 1953
Korea is still divided today

22. Significance of the Korean War
The use of nuclear weapons was avoided
America went to war without permission from Congress
China was established as a major world power
Containment was considered a “success”

23. Truman Fires MacArthur!
Tensions mounted between President Truman and General MacArthur: MacArthur wanted to push past the 38th parallel and even invade mainland China. Truman wanted to use diplomacy and avoid a major war with China.
• MacArthur tried to go over Truman’s head by using the media to get public support, and Truman fired him for insubordination on April 11, 1951.

24. Let’s Discuss It
How do you predict the public will respond to Truman’s decision to fire MacArthur?
• Is it a big deal to fire a General? Why or why not?
• Based on what you know about the Cold War and the 1950s, do you think the public sided with Truman (who wanted diplomacy) or with MacArthur (who wanted to invade mainland China)? Why?

25. What does this chart say about how the American people felt about Truman’s decision?
Did more people support or oppose Truman?
Did this change over time? Why?

26. Korean War Reading Passage
Read and ANNOTATE the passage about the Korean War.
Answer the questions on the back in COMPLETE SENTENCES.
DUE TOMORROW!

27. Exit Ticket
The idea that if one nation falls to communism that other nations will also fall to it is known as
containment
domino theory
mutually assured destruction
38th parallel

28. Exit Ticket 2. At the conclusion of the Korean War
the entire country became communist
the entire country became democratic
the north remained communist and the south remained democratic
Korea was taken over by China

29. Korean War Summary
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