POL S 203 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Bruce Cumings, Carpet Bombing, Nsc-68
6 Aug 2018
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Dwight garner, carpet-bombing falsehoods about a war that"s little understood, . Nyt (july 21 2010: u. s. succeeded in containment but not roll back. Japan was able to take korea as a colony in 1910 and the us let it happen. Korean was replaced with japanese and there were other cultural issues that japan instigated. It is when you just keep dropping multiple bombs on an area. The us dropped 635,000 tons of bombs and 32,557 tons of napalm over a three-year period. Civilians are the ones who suffer the most from these bombings. He is a revisionist historian because he is agreeing with the new cummings perspective that challenges the previous status quo on the korean war. Bruce cumings, a forgotten war" that remade the united states and the cold war, . The korean war (ny: modern library, 2010), pp. It changed the american defense spending that quadrupled the budget.
