Signs point to North Korea unilaterally launching the invasion. It was not helpful for the USSR and was at a very bad time for the PRC since the war immediately shut down plans to invade Taiwan.
The U.S., especially after Chinese troops entered the war, viewed it as a united and aggressive communist bloc brashly taking over one more country and likely to try more if not resisted. US defense spending shot back up to wartime levels (though far from the WWII peak) and stayed there.
China also viewed it as a feeler for aggression that would go further if not resisted. Both countries were overinterpreting local issues as global ones.
The dramatic reverses were all in the first year, followed by two years of stalemate before the armistice.
He ends up back at the starting point because if he walks the same steps forwards and backwards he would be in the same spot
Roman Catholic nominated for president.
Countries targeted by the Cairo Conference include the United States, the United Kingdom and China.
The Cairo Conference was held in that Egyptian city from November 22 to 26, 1943. It defined the allied position against Japan during World War II and made decisions about the future of post-war Asia. Attending the meeting were President Franklin Roosevelt for the United States, Prime Minister Winston Churchill for the United Kingdom, and Chiang Kai-shek for the Republic of China.
The "Cairo Declaration" was signed on November 27, 1943 and made public in a statement on the radio on December 1, noting the intention of the Allies to continue the deployment of military force until the unconditional surrender of Japan.
