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That's what they claim they were taught, and I got a Chinese/English published textbook, and I read it in black and white. I understand that everyone can know what's going on in China, and that I'm not saying I'm the only authority, but I read it in their textbooks. And as far as the A-bomb goes, we probably didn't do it as a warning because Stalin knew we only had 3, and we had used two. Doesn't make us so formidable does it? And the final point is this, and this goes for the Apollo question too, the conspiarcy theories remain theories in the west, but those theories are official in China.
We helped them in China just as much as they helped themselves in WW2. We organized an army for them (though they didn't use it), we flew supplies over the "hump" when the Burma road was cut and it was an extremely dangerous venture, American support supplied them with their only air force, and the allies reestablished the Burma road by retaking Burma from the Japanesen and by building the Stillwell road from India-an extremely bloody venture. They couldn't have won without the help of, primarily, British, Empire, and American troops.
The Korean War: this is how I've always interpreted it-
The N. Koreans invade S. Korea all the way to Pusan. At this point, the UN gets inolved (note: many nations sent troops there, but American troops constituted the vast majority), General Macarthur takes command, sets up an organized perimiter around the Pusan region, and turns it into armed camp. For the reinvasion, he conducts an end run at Inchon, and blitzkriegs to Pyongyang afterwards. After this, despite the fact that the objective was simply to reinstitute the 38th parallel, the allies decided to retake the peninsula under democracy, and capitalism. Bypassing many pockets of resistance, he invaded north to the yaloo, but with an army approaching their border, the Chinese thought this was the perfect oppurtunity to get involved. The sudden influx of troops forced the allies back all the way south of Seoul. The allies quickly recovered, however, retook Seoul, and established a border that, though wasn't the 38th parallel, it was similar. Actually it was better because it gave the south some land advantages that the North held before. This all happened in about 1 year, and the next two years were spent with bloody fighting along the border: except for the repulse of a single Chinese offensive there were no strategic or decisive battles whatsoever.
What's mentioned up there's the history. So now I'll give my impression. In my opinion, it was a partial victory for the allies, and a complete defeat for the communists. Our original objective was to retake the peninsula under democracy. This changed after our victory at Seoul, and we decided to take the peninsula. The Communists objective was one, and paramount throughout the war: take the entire peninsula. Since they didn't accomplish the war objective, then the only other explanation is that they lost. We had a partial victory because our second objective was to reunite the peninsula, but our primary objective was to reestablish the 38th parallel which we did, and even pushed north of it in all sectors except for the extreme west. That would tell me that we had a partial victory, but, in view of the fact that the north didn't accomplish any objectives of theirs, we won the war in my opinion.
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"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever."
- Thomas Jefferson
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