POL 373 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Escape Clause, Central Intelligence Agency, Korean War
22 Dec 2017
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Korean war and what followed turned anti-soviet actions in to anti-communist crusade. Eisenhower made nuclear weapons more prominent in security policy. Eisenhower also expanded treaties to protect most of the western hemisphere and some of oceania like new zealand and australia. Eisenhower expanded what the central intelligence agency did. Korean war wasn"t a failure of deterrence, but a failure to employ deterrence more effectively. There is no straight forward criteria for using deterrence. The north korean government wasn"t recognized by the united nations because the ussr didn"t allow the united nations to oversee the elections. The united nations partially became responsible for south korea because it oversaw the. Truman"s decision to commit to south korea was improvised elections there. Previously considered korea to be of minimal importance. +this was based on the concept of a general war, not a limited war.
