Korean War TimeLine

North Korea invades South Korea

July 27, 1953

July 1950

• North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union while South Korea was supported by the United Nations, principally the United States.

PRC Send forces over border into korea

October 1950

October 1950

• Chinese People’s Liberation Army began to cross the border to assist their North Korean ally.
• Their numbers grew to around 300,000 by early November.

US-led forces are routed

August 4—September 16, 1950

August 4th- September 16, 1950

• U.S. and South Korean troops established the "Busan Perimeter", and prevented North Korea from capturing South Korea.
• September 15—16, 1950 : U.S. forces conducted the Incheon Landing.

PRC forces retake seoul

March 7, 1951

• Chinese and North Korean troops are reported to be close to capturing the South Korean capital of Seoul for the second time since the war began last year.
• The authorities have ordered the evacuation of Seoul and thousands of people have started streaming south out of the city and across the Han river.

March 7, 1951

Peace talks stall

July 1951

• July 1951
• Both sides had committed atrocities against POW's,the U.S charged that American POWs had been starved subjected to political brainwashing sesions and making random exacution pratices.
• Trought the war ,speeches by American POW's wanted to call for an end to hostiles ,U.S sources indicated roughly 38 percent of all prisinors of war died

Trumans Dismisses

April 11, 1951

President Harry Truman announced with "deep regret" that he had dismissed General Douglas MacArthur as commanding general of U.S. forces in the Korean War. Truman’s decision came after MacArthur repeatedly criticized the president’s policies, advocating a more aggressive strategy even as Truman sought to limit the war.

April 11,1951

president Eisenhower Macarthur

December 2, 1952

former general Dwight D. Eisenhower, in an October 24 campaign speech, dramatically declared "I shall go to Korea" and end the war. That electrifying promise helped get him overwhelmingly elected the next month.

December 2, 1952

Stalin Dies

March 5, 1953

March 5, 1953

Stalin’s first big break came in 1912, when Lenin, in exile in Switzerland, named him to serve on the first Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party—now a separate entity from the Social Democrats.

Rip :(.....

Ceasefire agreed

July 27, 1953

A cease-fire agreement between the United Nations and North Korea marks the end of the Korean War.

July 27, 1953