It was not right to fire Macarthur during the Korean War. At the end of World War II, Korea had divided into North Korea and South Korea. ... Beginning of Korean War was the evidence of conflict between Macarthur, and President Truman. ... By presenting the Red Chinese with an ultimatum they must reject, the statement had the effect of scuttling a UN cease-fire offer. ... President Truman's perspective to see the Korean War, and his problems. ...

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In answering the question "In what ways was the concept of American Exceptionalism evident in the Cold War during the years 1947-1961?" I intend to start by looking at the root of the idea and how its history manages to evoke passionate responses of American Nationalism in the transition period between the end of World War One and the Cold War. ... I shall then move onto the Cold War itself, identifying the use of exceptionalism in three key areas; warfare (with specific focus on the Korean War), an ideological persuasion of weak nations (particularly the vulnerable west Germany) and...

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And did the "Lesson of Munich" have any effect on the way he viewed his decision? ... " At the time, going to war with Korea was a popular agreement, but Harry Truman was having second guesses. Truman felt that the decision to go to war with Korea was an immense outcome, even more so than using the atomic bomb, because he feared that he might have been taking the country into a dreadful war. ... " After World War II had just happened and now the United States was entering the Korean War, many wonder if the Lesson of Munich had anything to do with the way Truman viewed usi...

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There was little down time between the end of World War II and the beginning of the Truman administration's next foreign problem, the occupation of Korea and the Korean War. ... Rhee's regime was the trigger to kicking off the Korean War. ... Several reasons backed Truman in entering the Korean War. ... Truman knew that doing nothing in Korea would have a devastating effect on the occupation of Japan, with North Korea having airfields near Japan's major cities (Ferrell 115). ... The midst of the Korean War, almost all of South Korea was t...

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Franklin redefined the concept of executive activism, and has held the role of leading and administering the laws, but to also have a "vision for the country, an agenda to implement, a program to present to Congress, who will hopefully legislate such an initiative into effect with the president providing guidance, moral, and ideological inspiration.... Schlesinger also believes that the threat of nuclear war with the Soviet Union after World War II, "led to congress surrendering much of its oversight of military and diplomatic matters" (pg. 1). He also believes that congress sho...

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