US Decision-Making and the Outbreak of the Korean War with Samuel Wells

International History Declassified

Jul 2020

25 min 34 sec

Esteemed historian Samuel Wells joins co-hosts Pieter Biersteker and Kian Byrne to discuss the broader context of the Korean War and how US President Harry Truman made the decision to involve the US in the conflict.
According to Dr. Wells, much of our understanding of the Korean War today is due to the opening of the former Soviet archives in the early 1990s.
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