President Truman

Image Analysis: Korean War Truman is leading the

United Nations they are
The United Nations holding hands

Gravestone League of
Nations
Machine Gun The United
Nations is armed. Appeasement is the
diplomatic policy of
making concessions to
What is missing? dictatorial powers in
order to avoid
The poster does not address threatened conflict
the other circumstances
such as the Soviet Unions The League of Nations did
exit from the UN and the not address wanton
danger of nuclear war. aggression; this is
contrasted with the military
approach of Truman

This cartoon by the British cartoonist David Low, from the Daily
Herald (30 June 1950), shows Truman and the United Nations
rushing to Koreas aid.
 Cartoon Analysis: Even the reports to the
UN were censored by
The British cartoon shows a heroic Truman, leading an armed United
Nations, rushing to defend Korea. The decisive military reaction of Truman
[American] state and
and the UN over Korea is contrasted with the reference to the League of defence departments. I
Nations, which died of lack of exercise facing wanton aggression in the had no connection with
1930s the United Nations
Low had been very critical of appeasement in the 1930s and the message of whatsoever.
the cartoon is that this reaction to Korea is better, and gives more hope for

Q. During the Korean War, critics said that the USA simply pulled the strings of the UN like a puppet.General
How do MacArthurs
the quote from General MacArthur above and the image from the previous slide support this view? memoirs

Both the cartoon from David Low and the quote from General MacArthur indicate that the USA was simply pulling the
strings. In the cartoon we see President Truman leading/dragging an armed United Nations into the Korean War. It is
also important to note that the United Nations is the only one that is armed in the cartoon. This further indicates that
the United States is pulling the strings, or else it is likely that we would find the United States also armed in the
cartoon. This idea is reinforced by General MacArthurs quote in which he states that he did not have any connection
with the UN whatsoever. This indicates that the United States were pulling the strings as they had appointed General