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The Korean War: The Forgotten War

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Through one of the most brutal battles of the Korean War a slogan was created that said, “Once Upon a Time Hell Froze Over. We Were There”. Despite the Korean War being the “The Forgotten War” or the “ Unknown War” because of the low publicity, it was still a war against communism that the U.S participated in. Throughout the 19th century, the Korean had been ruled by both China and Japan and when Korea had finally been liberated of outside rule, the second world war split the peninsula into two. The peninsula was split into North and South Korea. North Korea came under the rule of the Soviet Union and became communist, while on the other hand South Korea became pro-west and took democracy as their government. The Korean War was officially …show more content…

Relations between the south and north were strained even before the official start of the war. There was a conflict because of the,”. . . Soviet and American occupation policies [that] ensured polarization of politics in Korea. . .”( History Behind the Headlines, Pg 151). This literally drove the North Koreans to attack South Korea. They wanted to rid the Korean Peninsula of all western influence. The north wanted to unite the two sides, but the two sides had already established their own government so the north wanted to take the south with force because they did not cooperate with the north's government policies.. In the end, the north could neither rid the western influence nor the unification of both nations. The war officially began, “ On June 25, 1950[when] North Koreans forces surprised the South Korean army. . . and …show more content…

It separated hundreds of Korean families on both sides of the border. For both the south and north the war ended with damaged economies and infrastructure. South Korea eventually rebounded and became modernized and industrialized with the help of America. Today it is has become the a revolutionary country leads the modernized world in many ways. On the other hand, North Korea was first robust, but their economy went into turmoil in the 1990s. South Korea became revolutionary and North Korea poverty stricken. Many countries like the US, Soviet Union Japan, and China were affected by the end of the war. In America, “ One of the most significant result of the Korean War was that it gave the U.S reason to increase it

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The Korean War Chart Somebody ... Wanted ... But ... So ... North Korea Wanted to make sure the Korean peninsula into a Communist nation United states and nation Stopped them The Chinese joined the war on the Korean side and pushed the united states and nation back to the 38th parallel line General MacArthur To win china over before they became communist with the soviet union Wasn’t allowed to be a general anymore and he was ordered to stay the 20 mile mark We stayed away from china for the most part and failed to get them to become democracy President Truman To stop soviet expansion , the war, and the spread of communsim Americans didn’t want to go to war The war ended in a statement China To stay in the “safe zone” that way there were no interruptions in their reconstruction They feared that the united states would break into china if the us and south Korean were allowed into war China planned a surprise attack and defeated American troops

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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.

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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

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