force’ was to reduce Korea, North and South, to a shambles, in three years of bombing and shelling. Napalm was dropped…perhaps 2 million Koreans, north and south, were killed in the Korean War, all in the name of opposing ‘the rule of force’” (Zinn 163).
China was already experiencing a revolution before the Korean War. The U.S. had supported a corrupt dictatorship in China led by Chiang Kai-shek, but the Communist movement had massive support and by 1949 Chinese Communist forces had ousted Chiang-shek, taken Peking and ended the civil war. Based on Cold War policies and anti-Soviet sentiment, the Korean War helped to mobilize support for President Truman that liberally supported foreign intervention and the economic build-up of the military domestically. Yet, capitalism was not elevated to its currently lofty position in the minds of Americans. Socialism and fascism still looked attractive to many who felt proof of capitalism ineffectiveness was demonstrated during the 1930s in America. Therefore, the Korean War helped to mobilize forces and support against the left in order to bolster and secure American capitalism. Thus, the U.S. craftily used the United Nations as a way of progressing with its initial Cold War policies by enacting an undeclared war on North Korea. In actuality, the causes of the Korean War had been building for roughly a period of three years time. In 1947, the U.S. went before the U.N. to solve the problem of the strong communist build up in North Korea and the instability of the weak democracy in South Korea. While Korea may have been the playing ground of the issue, the players were the U.S. and the Soviets who did try to solve the dilemma through the U.N. before conflict arose, “The Soviet Union suggested that both sides should withdraw from Korea, leaving the people there free to choose their own government, democratic or communist. The Americans did not accept this proposal because ...