During the first year of the Korean War, President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur developed fundamental disagreements over the methods and overall purpose of the conflict. After the Chinese entered the war on the side of North Korea in November 1950, MacArthur urged bombing Chinese bases, blockading China, and possibly using nuclear strikes, because he believed he was being forced to fight without being allowed to win. Truman instead regarded Korea as a limited war with limited goals and opposed escalating it into all-out war on the Asian mainland, which he saw as a small theater of the Cold War while Europe and the Soviet Union remained the main focus. In that view, a full-scale war with China was, as General Omar Bradley said, "the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy." After MacArthur publicly criticized Truman and his conduct of the war, Truman dismissed him on April 11, 1951. Eight days later, MacArthur addressed a joint session of Congress and declared, "In war there is no substitute for victory," expressing his opposition to containment, which he believed sent military commanders into battle without all the means needed for total victory. For Truman and many later presidents during the Cold War, however, containing communism became an accepted, though often unsatisfactory, alternative. As a longer, costlier, and less successful war of containment dragged on in Vietnam during the 1960s, many Americans came to question whether containment was fundamentally sound.