Period 8 Question 6

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Primary Source

One trading card from the Red Menace collection, "6. Landing at Inchon," depicting "GI" soldiers arriving on the shores of Inchon.

Front

Reverse side of anti-communist trading card, contains propaganda narrative that describes arrival of "GI" soldiers aiding the South Korean military. The narrative goes on to describe that the UN had "recaptured Seoul and kept going," and mentions "Chinese Reds strucks us from Manchuria."

Reverse

CHILDREN’S CRUSADE AGAINST COMMUNISM
6. Landing at Inchon
We couldn’t stand by and let North Korean Reds gobble up South Korea. So we sent troops to help the South Koreans keep their freedom. Our soldiers had a rough time because the enemy had lots more men than we did. We had to retreat down the Korean peninsula. Things looked bad in September 1950. Then we pulled a surprise punch. Our troops stormed ashore at Inchon, 150 miles behind the enemy lines. We recaptured Seoul and kept going. We had freed most of Korea when the Chinese Reds struck us from Manchuria.

FIGHT THE RED MENACE
Copyright 1951 Bowman Gum, Inc., Phila., Pa., U.S.A.

“The Children’s Crusade against Communism,” Bowman Gum Company trading cards, 1951 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)