Truman on Crises: Crisis in Korea

Truman interpreted a North Korean attack as direct aggression from the Soviet Union. More

President Truman interpreted the North Korean attack upon South Korea as direct aggression from the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union's support for the invasion, however, was limited and not driven by the Soviet leader Stalin. "What the United States got involved with in 1950 was not aggression from the Soviet Union," says historian Walter LaFeber, but "an incredibly bloody Civil War in Korea."

AIR DATE 10/31/11