South Korea didn’t want to be a contribution to communism, where North Korea believed that communism was the solution to all problems. This invasion caused and all out war the involved many other countries like Russia and the US. As stated in “Document C”, Russia’s job was to help North Korea and promote their communists government, where the US was there to help South Korea promote their capitalism. Several years after continuously fighting on whether Korea should have a communist or capitalists government, the war finally ended. The country is still divided today and North Korea still remains communists leaving the US failing to stop communism.
The Korean War was a proxy war fought between the United States and the USSR, for the purpose of gaining power and political influence in other parts of the world. Since the end of WWII, the USSR and the United States became very hostile against one another, creating what came to be called “The Cold War“ coined by Bernard Baruch in 1947 from the lack of there ever being direct battles against one another. From the result of the bitter and cold rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union came a large chain of indirect battling over political influence in developing or war-torn countries. As this feud occurred the people of the United States mainly wanted there to be a change in Korea out of this war [Doc E], but what was occurring
Accordingly in 19 Hundreds the japanese occupied the korean peninsula and this occupation was very forced and violent until the japanese lost the war and were forced to retreat. The the americans started to enter korea through the south and the soviets started entering from the north and both agreed to stop at a significant point and that point was the 38th parallel which split almost evenly korean in to two sides (Hickey). Both sides wanted to have party leaders and even though the elections where heavily rigged the elections still continued and Kim Il-sung was elected for the soviet party and Syngman Rhee was selected to represent the US and South Korea (Millett), parties both leaders were cruel and corrupt but the soviets had already started to build up troops to start the
Almost at the same time was founded the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) which under the control of the Communists. Political leaders of both countries wanted to take power over the whole Korean Peninsula. In 1949, Soviet and US troops leave the Peninsula, however, local begin to prepare for war. USSR and China secretly supported the decision of North Korean leader to unify and take power of the peninsula.
Following WWII, in 1945, the division of Korea was initiated. The Soviet Union established a pro-communist government on the Northside of Korea and Americans created a pro-democratic government on the Southside of Korea. After the division, known as the 38th parallel, occurred, North Korea began to attack again. This attack consisted of both the South and North pushing each other farther from the 38th parallel until the Chinese troops drove them back to the 38th parallel. The United States and The Soviet Union knew the war was not going anywhere but still persisted to continue.
This is where the cold war got warmer. On June 25th, 1950 North Korea would invade South Korea and it became clear to the United States that this attack was planned by Moscow. President Truman responded by waging war under the United Nations and did not ask congress for a formal declaration of war. Truman ordered American forces and supplies to help South Korea and the Soviets did the same with North Korea (Koenig, The 1950's and the Cold War 4). So although the United States and Soviet Union both aided different sides in the Korean war they were not technically fighting directly against each other.
The Korean war was a disaster for the Soviet Union. Their goal was to put all of Korea under Communist control, which they didn’t succeed in. The Soviet’s aggression led them to be perceived on the world stage as willing and able to help third world countries establish Communism which helped them grow in
The conflict caused lasting tension between the northern communists and the southern republicans that somewhat lasts to this day. In Vietnam, America’s economy and social life were impacted, but no other country was highly affected by the war. This major dispute changed all aspects of Vietnamese life and history, as well as America’s, but overall, it did not severely burden any other countries in the long run. In the present day, the Vietnam War’s effect on the spread of communism is weak because most governments are mainly non-communist parties, communists are not as assertive as they once were, and Cambodia is no longer communist. Currently, there are only five official communist countries: China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, and Cuba.
After World War II, Japan lost and Korea was divided into two parts. North Korea was a communist based country and South Korea was a non-communist based country. They were divided just like Germany was in 1945. North Korea is supported by the Soviet Union and China, both communist countries. South Korea was supported by the United States which was a non-communist country.
Bobbi, I do not think it can be overstated how important it was for South Korea to be able to avoid the nightmares that came with being a part of the communist regime that fell under the power of Joseph Stalin. The North Koreans were so lucky that Stalin did not seem interested in taking a more active role in their government when they approached him about the possibility of attacking South Korea. According to the book Lenin"s Tomb, the Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick, Stalin became increasingly paranoid and killed millions of his own supporters in countries that came under his influence such as the Polish officers murdered nightly at Kalinin in 1940. With the ability to look back on events, blocking of the spread of Communism
The government limits culture in NK as civilians have no direct influence to change culture. This paper’s purpose is to educate readers about the cultural aspects and considerations of NK. (U) First off, are North Korea’s political aspects, consisting of provinces, political
North Korea’s politics, economic standpoint and, nuclear advancement could have a great effect on US operations. The beginning of the isolated communist state, North Korea, began shortly after World War II with Kim Il Sung as its leader. Over time, North Korea has advanced in many ways throughout the Kim family ruling. This regime was the beginning of a strict and divided government with many ambitions to emerge through the international community.
The Korean War is a unique war in the history of the world and it has been going on for over 60 years and was never resolved. Technically the U.S is still at war with North Korea. This unsettled conflict between a communist nation, North Korea, and a democratic nation, the U.S., could ultimately lead to World War 3. Most of the people do not know why the United States got involved in the Korean War in the first place. Even though the Korean war stopped the spread of communism in the 1950s, which was the United States’ main foreign goal, the conflict between communism and the West has raged on.
The current relationship between South Korea and North Korea is very similar to how the United States and the Soviet Union were in the Cold War. As the World War II came to an end, so did the Japanese occupation in the Korean peninsula from the Soviet
After the war, in 1948, Korea was split in two. The Republic of Korea, controlled by the Allies, and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, ruled by the Soviets. Both considering themselves the ruling government there was tension which led to North Korea’s invasion of the South on June 25th, 1950. This sparked the Korean war between the American and the Vietnamese. In 1953 the war was over and Korea was still split in two with a De militarized zone in between.
