The US and South Korea, assisted by …
Years: 1953 - 1953
The US and South Korea, assisted by UN troops, fight China and North Korea to a stalemate in 1953.
The US then threatens to use the atomic bomb against China.
China accuses the US of biological warfare.
An array of germ warfare weapons are allegedly used against North Korea.
Accounts claim that there were releases of feathers infected with anthrax, fleas and mosquitoes dosed with Bubonic Plague and Yellow Fever, and rodents infected with a variety of diseases.
The Eisenhower administration will later press Sedition Charges against three Americans who publish charges of these activities; none of those charged are convicted.
The US, by 1953, bears 80 percent of the cost of France’s war effort against Vietnam.
American CIA-connected mercenaries fight alongside the French forces; the CIA’s Air America, the world’s largest “private” airline, provides air support.
Pathet Lao guerillas join the Viet Minh in an invasion of northern Laos, where they establish rebel bases.
Cambodia gains its independence in 1953.
Mao’s first Five-Year Plan, beginning in 1953, collectivizes agriculture and expands industrial production.