1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
eduard
3 years ago
9

What might have happened if MacArthur had convinced Truman to expand the fighting into China? How might today’s world be differe

nt?
History
1 answer:
Rufina [12.5K]3 years ago
7 0

Answer:

I'll try my best

Explanation:

MacArthur was a one trick pony: Amphibious assaults. He would overwhelm coastal / island garrisons with Battle Ship delivered fire power, and inundate the island with American Soldiers and naval airpower into submission. He played his one trick in Korean War at Incheon. However, he has never conducted a successful high intensity land campaign. He did not partake in Okinawa, and failed to stop a combined arms assault on Luzon, as well as in Korea. In fact, his recommendation in the winter of 1950 was to evacuate Korea and reattempt an amphibious landing. US and Korea were lucky that he was fired at that point, and Ridgeway who cut his teeth in Europe brought the Chinese offensive to a halt in early 1951 at Chipyong Ni.

So, any counterfactual involving MacArthur staying onboard, would involve him expanding the war into China by assault landing Taiwanese (ROC) troops into Fujian, and perhaps into Yungui region, to try to link back up with RoC remnants on the Yunnan-Burma border. US Troops would have been landed alongside RoC forces into Shanghai - Nanjing region, replicating the successful Japanese amphibious landings there a decade earlier.

RoK forces and USMC would have reeneacted Incheon landing, perhaps coupled with a simultaneous landing at Wonsan, effectively double enveloping the PVA in southern Korea.

Will it have succeeded? PRC and NorKo had no real Navy at the time, and US enjoyed uncontested Air Supremacy. Only impediments to sea lane logistics would have been the Typhoons, and other natural disasaters.

MacArthur also wanted to remilitarize Japan and to use its veterans in this expended war effort. Most likely, his splintered efforts on multiple fronts would have been contained and eliminated in detail by the sheer mass of trained reserves that PLA had in early 1950s. However, if he did somehow succeed in expanding the beachheads and eventually connecting them, the area contorlled by US and proxy forces would have closely resembled the final disposition of troops by IJA in the summer of 1945, minus Manchuria. China will have been forced to recall the PVA to bolster the defense of Manchurian and Hebei. Korea would have been united, possibly, but at this point, there would have been a strong likelihood of Russia entering the war to defend Manchuria, and retake Korea… and perhaps a European Front opening, beginning with an overrunning of Berlin.

All in all, Truman made the right decision to remove this overrated one trick pony whose time had come.

You might be interested in
How did the levee en masse change the french armies?
Paha777 [63]
The term Levee en masse denotes a short-term requisition of all able-bodied men to defend the nation and was based upon the concept of the democratic citizen versus the royal subject.
4 0
3 years ago
Select the best analogy. emancipate : imprison :: A. endorse : oppose B. explicate : explain C. imply : ply D. precipitate : rai
neonofarm [45]
The original two words are opposites (emancipate: make free/imprison: make not free , so we have to look for other opposites. Those are: endorse (support) and oppose.
8 0
3 years ago
Which of the following was uncovered during the Iran Contra scandal?
Hoochie [10]

Answer:

During the Iran Contra scandal, it was uncovered that the Reagan administration was providing illegal aid to anti-communist rebels in Central America.

Explanation:

The Iran-Contra scandal, also known as Irangate, was a political event that took place in 1985 and 1986, in which senior officials of the United States government, under the administration of President Ronald Reagan, facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, a country against which an arms embargo weighed. Both operations, the sale of arms and the financing of the Contra, were prohibited by the US Senate.

The operation to sell arms to Iran produced more than 47 million dollars, money that was managed by Oliver North through a network of bank accounts in Switzerland and was used, mainly, to finance the aggression against the government of Nicaragua and support to the Contra.

8 0
3 years ago
The passage of the Fifteenth Amendment led to, what?
lawyer [7]

Answer:

(C.)

The passage of the fifteenth amendment led to the establishment of long-awaited true political equality.

Explanation:

Explanation: The Fifteenth Amendment that was done to the United States Constitution guaranteed the African Americans the right to vote in the elections conducted thenceforth.

7 0
3 years ago
How did the Catholic Church defend the selling of indulgences
cestrela7 [59]

How did the Catholic Church defend the selling of indulgences?

They said that you won't go to heaven.

7 0
3 years ago
Other questions:
  • Faced with famine, increased taxes, and rising discontent, Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates-General. This was the first
    7·2 answers
  • Which of the following questions best describes the importance of the Battle of Guadalcanal?
    11·1 answer
  • From which fact can the reader infer that Beowulf from Beowulf is honorable?
    6·1 answer
  • Which best describes the taking on of American popular beliefs?
    6·1 answer
  • Which colony did NOT send any representatives to the Albany Congress? A. Rhode Island B. Massachusetts C. Virginia D. Connecticu
    14·1 answer
  • Which of these presidential powers comes from their role as chief executive? appointing generals negotiating treaties deploying
    5·2 answers
  • why might the saint domingue slave revolt in 1791 be considered one of the most important Independence movements in the americas
    12·2 answers
  • Rousseau argued that society should be governed by a. the military. c. a monarch. b. the church. d. a social contract. Please se
    5·1 answer
  • How does a representative government BEST serve the purpose of constitutional government?
    5·1 answer
  • Is taking a dump in school braver than lgbtq?
    10·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!