Douglas MacArthur

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open a full scale war against north korea and its allies like china

Guadalcanal.

MacArthur used the tactic of a flank attack at Inchon Korea.

he talked too much about military affairs in Korea which was against President Truman's orders
Arrogance, accompanied by MacArthur's statement that Red China wouldn't enter the war...and they did.

General Douglas MacArthur was placed at the head of UN Forces in the Korean War (which was the conflict that resulted when the UN acted to thwart North Korean aggression against Seoul and South Korea generally.

leader who moved uneasily as a tragic and sometimes heroic, occasionally bureaucratic, and even superman character

He was a general and something I don't know

Douglas MacArthur was a general in the US army. He had major a influence in the win of the US in the Pacific in World War II. He was dismissed by the president Harry Truman during the Korean War.

Truman removed General MacArthur from command due to a disagreement between them over the use of Nuclear Weapons on China after China attacked the UN Army in North Korea. The debate became too public and Truman had to assert his position as Commander in Chief.

He badly miscalculated the strength of the enemy and was forced to retreat

World War 1, World War 2, and Korean War.

Yes the Truman Doctrine was a success. It prevent the spread of Communism into Turkey and Greece by providing $400 million in and and by sending troups to fight back. Yes the Truman Doctrine was a success. It prevent the spread of Communism into Turkey and Greece by providing $400 million in and and by sending troups to fight back.

During WW2 and the Korean War, GEN MacArthur was an American Hero, furnished with ticker tape parades, and was requested by the population to run for the US Presidential Office. He was paraded thru the major cities of the US after WW2, and paraded again after being relieved of command during the Korean War. Always being treated as a hero, even after being fired (relieved of command). One of his greatest speeches was at West Point: "...An old soldier never dies, he just fades away..."

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The invasion was at Incheon (or Inchon) in Korea.

On 15th September, 1950, MacArthur landed American and South Korean marines at Inchon, 200 miles behind the North Korean lines. The following day he launched a counterattack on the North Koreans. When they retreated, MacArthur's forces carried the war northwards, reaching the Yalu River, the frontier between Korea and China on 24th October, 1950.

During World War 2, General Douglas MacArthur developed the strategy of island hopping. He would capture certain islands. The Americans would use those islands to get closer to their goal. He would leave Japanese troops on the other islands. He would not waste American lives trying to capture those islands. The objective was to get close enough to Japan to establish bomber bases capable of dropping bombs on Japan.

The fight for the freedom of the Philippines from Japanese invasion. The American evacuation of the Philippines was the result of Japan's aggression in East Asia. General MacArthur would keep his promise and did return. Before this happened there was a top secret meeting between President Roosevelt, MacArthur, and Admiral Nimitz. MacArthur talked the president to retake the Philippines instead of attacking Formosa.

Douglas MacArthur was relieved of his command in the pacific by president Harry Truman because of his failures in the first two of the three phases of the Korean war, the first in trying to hold the communists at the 38th paralel (the border between North and South Korea), and then in trying to push the communist Chinese forces out of Korea, which he thought he had nearly done when he push them to the China- North Korean border, but in reality, the communists were withdrawing and ammasing their forces on the border, and when the UN troops were spread out thinly across all of Korea, they struck, pushing the UN forces all the way back to the 38th paralel and a little beyond.

Mcarthur also wanted to attack China (as they were sending troops to assist the North Koreans in return for their assistance during the Chinese civil war which took place during World War 2, which the communists won), using Chinese nationalist troops (the democratic Chinese forces left over from the civil war, which they had lost) to augment UN forces in a full out assault on China, after which he wanted to drop 30 to 50 nuclear bombs along the neck of Manchuria (the section of China that borders Korea), the prupose of which would be to turn the China- North Korea border into an impassable, "radioactive no man's land for sixty years".

This plan was not the reason for Mcarthurs' being removed from his command, though it probably pushed Truman to the decision, as a poll back in America had shown that the majority of the population did not favor an all out war with China.

Also MacArthur ran a ship aground I belive and he argued with Truman about bombing china directly and that's when Truman relived his command

He was relieved of his command because he was disregarding his superiors

He did not think they would react as the UN soldiers approached the North Korean border with China. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers counterattacked the UN troops, pushing them back to the border with South Korea. He totally misjudged Chinese response to the UN soldiers a few miles from their borders.

WW1 , WW2 and the Korean conflict .