American Public Opinion towards the War:
Throughout the wartime effort, over 80% of the American public supported president Truman’s idea to go to war. However, the war effort created an enormous amount of debt as the war grew to a larger scale. As causalities mounted and the war seemed endless, more Americans began to rethink their decision on supporting the war. Over the next year, more than half of Americans that supported the war demanded that the troops would be pulled out. War weariness swept through the country by the time China had intervened and captured the capital of South Korea in 1952. What is significant to note is the massive change in public opinion that eventually spread to many enlisted soldiers as well. Traumatized by the conditions, brutality and destruction that the Korean War created, some of them spoke out against America’s actions in Korea.
Throughout the wartime effort, over 80% of the American public supported president Truman’s idea to go to war. However, the war effort created an enormous amount of debt as the war grew to a larger scale. As causalities mounted and the war seemed endless, more Americans began to rethink their decision on supporting the war. Over the next year, more than half of Americans that supported the war demanded that the troops would be pulled out. War weariness swept through the country by the time China had intervened and captured the capital of South Korea in 1952. What is significant to note is the massive change in public opinion that eventually spread to many enlisted soldiers as well. Traumatized by the conditions, brutality and destruction that the Korean War created, some of them spoke out against America’s actions in Korea.