Test. Test. Now, the next slide, a little complicated but its priority one assignments, percentage of the total of College Graduates brought into the army. These are both draftees and enlisted. Priority one was the category the army called wanted to be filled with a College Graduate. So some of the an acronyms on the bottom, men who volunteered for officer candidate school or enlisted for it. C. A. S. Stands for civilian acquired skills. Those are men who came in with skills that immediately translated to an mos, so they were awarded that mos based on their skills, such as delta clerks. A lot of lawyers got drafted and wound up as legal clerks. 91 seiierra, preventive medicin. Department of the army preferred mos utilization, these were moss requiring a high score in the Armed Forces Qualification test, such as 96 bravo intelligence analysts. Men could be assigned that, or they could actually enlist for it as well. Now, enlisted for an mos is men who went down to see their recruiting s
Next, on lectures in history. University of North Carolina at chapel hill Professor Joseph glathaar. Removal from command by president truman and civil relations. His class is about an hour. Today, im going to talk about the korean war. 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 insurgents into south ko
Joseph 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, 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 assist of the United Assistance of the United Nations, 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 to try and overthrow that government and they failed to do so. Then, in january of 1950, the u. S. Secretary of state made a significant error. In a speech in
I told you there are 2 million people. So Big Community. And also there are many, many korean americans here and also americans who are aware of the importance of the korean war. So these, i think, this is a Big Community that Korean People can have in the United States and they are very, very supportive and proud of what korea has produced. So this is a Big Community. Bill we have a couple of minutes left. Lets go back to the photographs on the website, part of the database, and what you said is the start of the whole idea of seeing the photographs of veterans. How do you judge what to put on the website . You said you dont want the dramatic theme ones, the military actions, but the everyday shots. Professor han there is no shortage of photographs, for example. Important thing is the merit date, when and where and who. If korean war veterans comes with that kind of picture so we can put the meta data, because its a database thats searchable, so we need the meta data and if photographs
The u. S. , and the soviet union joined the occupied korea. They agreed to divide korea. Not northern korea what we call today to north korea was a very much communist influence. Southern influence, we now call south korea was a very different situation. With the assistance of the un they sponsored elections in south korea and south koreans elected a democratic government. North korea however wanted to unite under its terms so it sent insurgents into south korea to try to overthrow that government and they failed to do so. Then, on january 1950 the u. S. Secretary of state dean acheson had very significant air in a speech talking about the areas of influence and positions that were vital to the United States interest. Imagine japan and the philippines and omitted south korea. The North Koreans interpreted that as a statement the u. S. Would not go to war to defend the south korea. So in june of 1950, armed with soviet equipment and aided by the chinese the north korea invaded south kor