Hokkaido . Truman said, no. And so im going to wrap things up therekevin is assistant proff history at the university of california at los angeles. He specializes in korea and also in northeast asia. He teaches a wide variety of courses u. S. Politics and diplomacy, the cold war, the global cold war, decolonization and dissent. The history of capitalism and much more. Kevin has written numerous essays and articles for some of the leading pop culture and scholarly journals, including diplomatic history, the nation and the village voice, his a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at stanford university. There it is again that stanford university, where hes completing a new book with the tentative title, worlds unseen, Henry Wallace, Herbert Hoover and the making of cold war america. No doubt kevin will be talking on that subject right now. Kevin, all yours. Well, thank you, burt, for the kind introduction. Thank you. Also, too, as everyone else has said to to the Thomas Schwartz for
History at the university of california at los angeles. He specializes in korea and also in northeast asia. He teaches a wide variety of courses u. S. Politics and diplomacy, the cold war, the global cold war, decolonization and dissent. The history of capitalism and much more. Kevin has written numerous essays and articles for some of the leading pop culture and scholarly journals, including diplomatic history, the nation and the village voice, his a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at stanford university. There it is again that stanford university, where hes completing a new book with the tentative title, worlds unseen, Henry Wallace, Herbert Hoover and the making of cold war america. No doubt kevin will be talking on that subject right now. Kevin, all yours. Well, thank you, burt, for the kind introduction. Thank you. Also, too, as everyone else has said to to the Thomas Schwartz for leading this charge into a revision, is am i also like shawn feel the same way about it . W
History at the university of california at los angeles. He specializes in korea and also in northeast asia. He teaches a wide variety of courses u. S. Politics and diplomacy, the cold war, the global cold war, decolonization and dissent. The history of capitalism and much more. Kevin has written numerous essays and articles for some of the leading pop culture and scholarly journals, including diplomatic history, the nation and the village voice, his a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at stanford university. There it is again that stanford university, where hes completing a new book with the tentative title, worlds unseen, Henry Wallace, Herbert Hoover and the making of cold war america. No doubt kevin will be talking on that subject right now. Kevin, all yours. Well, thank you, burt, for the kind introduction. Thank you. Also, too, as everyone else has said to to the Thomas Schwartz for leading this charge into a revision, is am i also like shawn feel the same way about it . W
History at the university of california at los angeles. He specializes in korea and also in northeast asia. He teaches a wide variety of courses u. S. Politics and diplomacy, the cold war, the global cold war, decolonization and dissent. The history of capitalism and much more. Kevin has written numerous essays and articles for some of the leading pop culture and scholarly journals, including diplomatic history, the nation and the village voice, his a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at stanford university. There it is again that stanford university, where hes completing a new book with the tentative title, worlds unseen, Henry Wallace, Herbert Hoover and the making of cold war america. No doubt kevin will be talking on that subject right now. Kevin, all yours. Well, thank you, burt, for the kind introduction. Thank you. Also, too, as everyone else has said to to the Thomas Schwartz for leading this charge into a revision, is am i also like shawn feel the same way about it . W
In that it had been a colony of japans sense 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 insurgents 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 state dean achison made a significant error. In a speech talking about the areas of influence and positions that were vital to the United Statess interest, he mentioned japan and the philippines and omitted south korea. The North Koreans interpreted that as a statement that the u. S. Wouldnt