HIST 218 Lecture 20: Lecture 20 Chinese Civil War 1945

• School: McGill University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 218
• Professor: Lorenz Martin Luthi

Document Summary

(cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) The a-bomb and the cold war in asia. Korea, vietnam, and the end of ww2 (from last lecture) Spring of 1941 russia and japan signed non aggression treaty. Russia and us allied but us fought against japan alone. Stalin promised after germany defeated, he would enter the war with. Stalin"s demands 1945 traditional russian interest in east asia (cid:1) (cid:1: transfer of islands, railroad and lease of harbor (manchuria) spoke to chiang directly. Kmt never controlled manchuria in the first place. Wanted good relations with soviet once world war 2 ended might support. Why did us drop 2 bombs in japan. Both us and soviet union believes a bomb were war terminating. Japanese let go of korean prisoners before they withdrew. Southern koreans move up to north koreans because pro-american, non- communist party emerged. Government structures starting in north and moved south.