Korean war and Civil Military relations. His class is about an hour. Today im going to talk about the korean war and were going to talk a little bit about Civil Military relations. Last time we met we talked about the cold war and the development of containment. Korea was an unusual situation in that it had been a colony of japans since 1910, during the Second World War there was fighting in korea, the u. S. And the soviet union jointly occupied korea and they agreed to divide korea. Now, northern korea, that is what we call today north korea was very much communist influenced. Southern korea, which we now call south korea was a very different situation. With the assistance of the u. N. They sponsored elections in south korea and South Koreans elected a democratic government. North korea, however, wanted to unite under its terms and so it sent inser jents into south korea to try and overthrow that government and they failed to do so. Then, in january of 1950, the u. S. Secretary of sta
University of north korea at chapel hill Professor Joseph glatthaar teaches about the korean war and Civil Military relations. His class is about an hour. Today im going to talk about the korean war and were going to talk a little bit about Civil Military relations. Last time we met we talked about the cold war and the development of containment. Korea was an unusual situation in that it had been a colony of japans since 1910, during the Second World War there was fighting in korea, the u. S. And the soviet union jointly occupied korea and they agreed to divide korea. Now, northern korea, that is what we call today north korea was very much communist influenced. Southern korea, which we now call south korea was a very different situation. With the assistance of the u. N. They sponsored elections in south korea and South Koreans elected a democratic government. North korea, however, wanted to unite under its terms and so it sent inser jents into south korea to try and overthrow that gov
Oh, thats so interesting. He got fired, came back home to the United States and went on tour around the United States giving speeches in uniform opposing the Truman Administration and presenting his side of the situation and insisting this was the right war for world war 3. And perhaps the most famous statement came none other than bradley. It is the wrong time for the wrong fight and the wrong place. Theres a lot to be said for that. The primary mission was protection of europe. We didnt want to get embroiled against the huge war against the peoples republic of china. You remember princess bride. The stupidest thing is to get in a land war in asia. [ inaudible question ] i think it became clear he didnt really have the support he was opening. Remember, 7 Million People came out to cheer him after this debac debacle. Whennizen ho it shows you macarthur had a lot of support. I think as evidence came out people realized macarthur really overstepped his bounds, and he did. Of course there
All right. So good afternoon and welcome. Today were going to talk about cold war era Science Education films, in particular ones that were made for tv and the classroom. Now, weve been talking about classroom films before. Really to do any kind of history of classroom films you need to understand the scholarship in a lot of fields. So i will be quoting and referencing and pulling together work that ive done and other historians of science, film studies people, Communication Studies scholars. Even folklorists. So this will be particularly interesting. For reasons that should by now be obvious, the topic is interdisciplinarian. So in particular were going to return to this question, right, what are the relationships between art, science, entertainment and culture. In cinema how did they reinforce one another in these particular contexts. Were going to see the movement of people, the same people across institutions, right, across media forums and across science. So it is all going to be
Good morning, i am the executive Vice President of the u. S. Chamber of commerce, in charge of international affairs. On behalf of the u. S. Chamber of delighted toare host the u. S. Secretary of state for exiting the European Union, david davis, give him a round of applause. I know, secretary davis this is your first visit back to washington in some time. It is an interesting time on both sides of the atlantic. Here we have our unique set of interesting and complex challenges which will not be discussed at todays discussion. An are coming off interesting round of negotiations with your counterpart in europe as well. I know there are a lot of Business Leaders but there are also diplomats from Different Industries in washington. I want to recognize one diplomat in particular. Embassy whohe u. K. Has done a great job representing your country in washington dc. Now, it is an unusual occurrence, someone said on their way in, this is the first time in 25 years ive worn a tie on a friday bef