The Characteristics Of The American Military Strategy In The Eastern Asia During The Truman Administration

The Truman administration was the early period of the Cold War on the basis of the"off-shore balancer", the United States established its military strategy, that is, to take the initiative, establish the NATO on its behalf, launch military confrontation, and struggle with the Soviet Union in the Central Europe. Meanwhile, the United States did its utmost to facilitate and maintain the China's unification, and then made China into its own strategic ally or becoming another Yugoslavia to confront the Soviet Union with the help of the United States in the Eastern Asia. In so doing, the Soviet Union would collapse in the end, and the United States would win a victory in the Cold War. There are three military strategic policies toward China the Easter Asia in the Truman Administration, which set up the strategic structure of the Cold War, and in which established the strategic foundation of American victory. The article attempts to analyze the strategic backgrounds and meanings of the three policies, and obtain the revelations to us.1. The strategic background and meaning of the Atomic drop on JapanThe President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of illness, and the Vice President Harry S. Truman succeeded him as the President on April 12, 1945. At that time, the strategic structure had been established fundamentally in the Europe, but there was in great suspense in the Eastern Asia. Based on their common strategic demands, Japan and the Soviet Union reached a secret agreement in order to sustain the long-term disintegration of China, that is, Japan put up a stubborn resistance against the United States and gave up the defense against the Soviet Union. So it was up to the Soviet Union to occupy the North China, which would give the greatest strategic bonus to the Soviet Union, and minimize that of the United States. As its bargaining counters, Japan...