korean war effect on truman and stalin & did it make world closer to nuclear war?

Question 1

would truman have been able to run for president again in 1953

Answer 1

yes

Question 2

For how long had Truman been president for by 1952

Answer 2

7 years

Question 3

why did Truman not run for president again in 1952

Answer 3

because the war in Korea had already dragged out for 2 years and by this point there was no sign that his ambition to remove communism from North Korea would actually work, and people didn’t believe he could end the war

Question 4

hoe much percentage of Americans dissaproved of trumans leadership

Answer 4

66%

Question 5

who became the American president in 1953

Answer 5

Eisenhower

Question 6

who was Douglas Macarthur

Answer 6

a famously successful soldier in WW1 &2 who led the American army in the Korean war

Question 7

was Macarthur for or against communism

Answer 7

very anti communist

Question 8

what did Macarthur want to do and how did Truman react to it

Answer 8

wanted to start a full scale war against china, this worried Truman so he fired him in 1951

Question 9

when was MacArthur fired

Answer 9

1951

Question 10

how did firing macarthur add to Trumans unpopularity

Answer 10

because macarthur was popular with the population

Question 11

why did stalin limit soviet intervention in the korean war

Answer 11

he wanted to avoid full scale war with USA

Question 12

Did stalin ever try to end the korean war

Answer 12

no

Question 13

what did Stalin do during the korean war

Answer 13

supplied China and North Korea

Question 14

when did Stalin die

Answer 14

1953

Question 15

did Truman and eisenhower threaten to use nuclear weapons during the korean war

Answer 15

they both threatened but never did

Question 16

MAO made many statements dismissing the threat of what and why

Answer 16

nuclear war

because america’s weapons were like a ‘paper tiger’ (couldn’t withstand wind and rain and just outwardly dangerous)

Question 17

what did Truman state in november 1950 is a press conference regarding nuclear weapons

Answer 17

that he was willing to use them

Question 18

did Truman use nuclear weapons, if not what did he do

Answer 18

no he didn’t use them but he sent them to Korea in 1950, and Macarthur’s sucessor was given permission to use them

Question 19

when were nuclear weapons sent back to America

Answer 19

1951

Question 20

what did Eisenhower state when he became president about nuclear weapons

Answer 20

that if peace treaties or talks made no progress, then we was willing to use them