How was the Chinese Civil War to the US involvement in the Korean war?

Answer 1

The North was seen as little more than a puppet state of the Soviet Union, and the outcome of China's civil war made the US all the more determined not to allow Communism to advance further in territories the US controlled or had occupied.

Answer 2

It's alittle confusing to answer a question when it's phrased like the "Chinese civil war", because SO MANY NATIONS have had SO MANY civil wars through out their histories, that it's not known WHICH civil war they are talking about. And China has been around for thousands of years...which makes for probably a DOZEN civil wars occurring thru-out it's history!

Besides, it gets pretty confusing to tell the difference between a civil war and a revolutionay war too. But the difference is generally: a civil war is fought in which a nation is trying to form a separate nation...seceding from it's mother country. A revolution is actually overthrowing the mother nation's government and replacing it with another one.

Another words: a civil war creates two nations (such as the USA and the CSA during the US Civil War); whereas a revolution retains the same country but has a different government. Which would make describing the American Revolutionary War of 1776 even more confusing.

So, are you asking about the 1949 Communist Revolution in which Mao defeated the National Chinese (who escaped to Taiwan), and turned China into Red China in 1949?

If you are; it influenced the Korean War heavily; because if Chang Kai Shek would've retained China, there might not have been a Korean War, because the North Koreans could NOT have been supplied with tanks, artillery, etc. But since Red China was a communist nation when the Korean War erupted...North Korea was easily supplied with war material. PLUS, Red China entered the war against the US/UN. Nationalist China would not have gone to war against the US. Korea, being a peninsula, was easily blockaded by the USN, supplies had to come across the Communist Chinese border. If there had been no Red China, quite possibly, there would have been no war there in 1950.