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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"the Korean War"”.
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American misperceptions and the Korean War.
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, 1971
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Voices in the Wind: American Opposition to the Korean War
<p>Very little has been written on the peace movement during the Korean war. Historian Joseph Conlin assessed the period and concluded that "when hostilities with North Korean troops commenced in 1950, the American antiwar movement stood at its nadir." Lawrence Wittner's fine book Rebels Against …
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The remembered war: the Korean war in American culture, 1953-1995
After three years of bitter fighting, the Korean War ended on July 27, 1953. It profoundly shaped and directed American Cold War policy for the next four decades. Korea’s place in American culture and memory, however, has seemingly been less profound. This dissertation reassesses the war’s legacy …
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Constructing Frontier Villages: Human Habitation in the South Korean Borderlands after the Korean War
The inter-Korean border is often considered to be purely a politico-militaristic problem which renders the space of the border static, homogeneous, and empty of human habitation. However, a closer examination reveals a highly dynamic border full of discrepancies which is, in fact, inhabited by …
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Legions or legends : assessing U.S. Army and Marine effectiveness in the Korean War, 1950-1951
This study compares the military effectiveness of the United States Army and United States Marine Corps during the first 10 months of the Korean War. Representative battles selected from the Pusan Perimeter, the Liberation of Seoul, and the Retreat from the Yalu are analyzed using a process-tracing …
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Non-Hostile Casualties in These Kinds of Wars from the Korean War to Operation Iraqi Freedom
This thesis provides a detailed study of the non-hostile deaths of the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Operation Desert Storm, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. This document examines the causes of the non-hostile deaths, from illnesses, accidents, friendly fire, and other injuries, as well as the trends …
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Battle for the Punchbowl: The U. S. 1st Marine Division 1951 Fall Offensive of the Korean War
… and tactical study of a battle fought by the U. S. 1st Marine Division near "the Punchbowl," an extinct volcano of military value in the Taebaek Mountains of Korea, from late August through mid September 1951. That engagement was to be the last 1st Marine Division offensive of the Korean …
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Military band musicians on the border: crossing over musical genres in the transnational space of the Korean War
This dissertation examines Korean War period music and explains the musical encounters and developments that resulted from the military collaboration between South Korea (the Republic of Korea) and the United States in the initial stage of the Cold War. In particular, this dissertation looks …
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Korean Soil, Japanese Faces, American Empire: Repatriation and the Korean War Experiences of Japanese Laborers and Japanese American Soldiers
<p>This paper compares the Korean War experiences of two ethnically Japanese groups that served the US military on the Korean Peninsula – second-generation Japanese American (Nisei) soldiers in the US Military Intelligence Service (MIS) and Japanese laborers – to demonstrate the salience of …
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Fighting Tigers with a Stick: An Evaluation of U.S. Army Recruitment, Training, and Their Combat Outcomes in the Korean War
<p>After the Korean War, most people regarded the performance of the U.S Army in that conflict as largely checkered. It had not once, but twice retreated disgracefully, losing to theoretically inferior third world armies. Its soldiers often performed poorly, not just in battle, but also prison …
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Life and Seoul of the Party: South Korea’s Brief Occupation under Communist North Korea
This thesis analyzes the North Korean occupation of Seoul through the oral histories of the men and women who experienced the event. At the beginning of the Korean War, North Korean forces successfully captured and held the South Korean capital for three months. Despite the occupation’s interesting …
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Images of China in U.S. foreign policy making
This thesis tests the hypothesis that the U.S. policy makers, represented by Secretary of State Dean Acheson during the Truman Administration, adopted a hostile image of Communist China after the Chinese intervention in the Korean War. To examine Acheson's image of Communist China, the research …
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Chinese Eyes on the Prize: Strategic Partnerships and Changing Priorities
<p>The overall theme of this paper is increasing knowledge of the evolution of Chinese priorities and strategy since the Korean War, and how the evolution of China's relationships reveals changes in priorities. Why were these partnerships entered into on the part of China? What was China's …
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“I didn’t have time to find the English words”: The Korean War’s Role in the Evolution of Bilingualism in the Canadian Armed Forces
This thesis explores the impact of the Korean War on the evolution of the role of the French language in the Canadian military between 1946 and 1954. It explains how the Korean War acted as both a catalyst for a more accommodating stance towards the French language in the Canadian Armed Forces, and …
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A Study of the Effectiveness of Nitrogen, Manganese, and Copper as Substitutes for Nickel in Low-Chromium Stainless Steels.
During the past 40 years, the United States has experienced several strategic material shortages prompted by crises such as World War II and the Korean War. Historically, the issue of a critical materials policy by the United States was not addressed until shortages of materials hindered the …
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Editorial reaction of selected major Indiana daily newspapers to a national controversy : the Truman, MacArthur conflict
The dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur on April 11, 1951, from all of his commands by President Truman furnished the impetus for this survey of editorial opinion and reaction. The newspaper editorial opinion represents five major daily newspapers with broad geographic coverage of the State of …
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Building partner armies : US lessons for an era of strategic competition
Why has the United States struggled to build effective militaries in partner states? Current research delineates two predominant strategies employed by the United States when developing foreign security forces: the Rapport Building Approach and the Pressure-Based Approach. Both camps reveal …
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