Korean War #1: America Dawns

When Diplomacy Fails Podcast

Zack Twamley

Phd, International Relations, Korean War, European History, 17th Century, 18th Century, Politics, 20th Century, Thirty Years' War, History, 19th Century, War, First World War

4.8 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Episode 1: America Dawns, looks at the situation which greeted US policymakers between 1945-50. As an episode it serves as a good roundup of all we've learned in the Cold War Crash Course, but a simple summary episode THIS IS NOT!

We delve into the mindset behind the Truman Doctrine, ask what the goals of NATO were and investigate how Washington viewed Soviet moves by examining their additional policies and proclamations.

We also look at the problems which faced the US in the late 1940s, including the mindset which insisted that there was no money in the kitty to fight the Soviets, and that Washington would have to cut its cloth to suit its pocket. This attitude towards defence expenditure and confrontation with the forces of communism would change in time, but not yet. The three losses - of China, of its status as the sole nuclear power, and of Mao Zedong himself to the Soviet Union, after the Treaty of Friendship was signed in February 1950 - all influenced American policymakers to consider a radical change in policy, and they settled upon a blandly named report called NSC68.

What was meant by Chinese Titoism? And what had American policymakers hoped to achieve by cosying up to the Chinese communists? Could they really expect to change the perspective of the Chinese, when the Soviets loomed so large in Mao's estimation? Make sure you join us to find out the answer to this question as well as a host of others. Our first episode, at long last. I hope you enjoy it.

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0:52.8	Hello and welcome history friends, patrons all to to the Korean War, Episode 1, America
0:58.8	Doms.
1:00.1	Yes, indeed, as you're surely aware by now, we hear it when diplomacy fails, as in me,
1:05.6	have decided to fly by the seat of our pants for a change and take a break from the
1:09.9	long war in the 17th century
1:11.5	to cover a conflict in history known of but not properly known. I'm here to change all that,
1:17.6	and for most of 2018 we'll be taking in-depth look at one of history's forgotten conflicts
1:23.5	through the formula of when diplomacy fails. You won't be getting a blow-by-blow account of every Korean skirmish.
1:30.8	Instead, you'll be getting the diplomatic, geopolitical, global strategic view of the event,
1:36.4	the different players involved and the tensions between each of them,
1:39.8	as the world polarized into the state of affairs which would become known as the Cold War.
1:45.0	The fact that the Korean War is still referred to as the Forgotten War says an awful lot about
1:49.9	the event in history and in many ways having looked at the war as I have done, it's really
1:55.0	difficult to account for its forgotten nature. This is because, as we'll see, the Korean War wasn't merely a battle between North and South.
2:03.1	It was a clash of world interests. Both the USSR and China stood on the side of the Communist North,
2:10.6	while the United States stood firmly on the side of the South.
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