Korean War

The Beginning

Korean War

War Ended

No permanent peace treaty has ever been signed.The July 1953 armistice may have ended the war, but it has not led to a peace treaty between North and South Korea. The two sides are still separated by a heavily fortified 2.5-mile-wide demilitarized zone, and tensions remain high.

Official ceasefire negotiations began in July 1951, by which time the wild swings of the early war had been replaced by limited attacks on strategic positions. Within months the two sides had agreed to divide the country along the existing battle line and not the 38th parallel. This would give South Korea slightly more territory than it had before the war. Fighting temporarily died down at the front as a final deal appeared imminent. But it was held up by a dispute over the repatriation of prisoners of war.

The War went from 1950-1953. It was a War against North and South Korea.

It started when the North attacked the South.

A few hours after the attack, United States Toops were sent over to help as reinforcements.

Long retreats marked the early stages of the war.The invading North Korean troops were able to capture Seoul within three days—the first of four times that city would change hands—and quickly pushed their opponents back to the so-called Pusan Perimeter in the extreme southeastern portion of the peninsula. When China entered the war in October on the side of North Korea, MacArthur initially discounted its importance. If they tried to advance, then “there would be the greatest slaughter,” MacArthur told Truman. He was quickly proven wrong, as a November attack by the Chinese sent the overextended American troops into the longest retreat in U.S. military history, nicknamed the “Big Bug-Out.” “They turned our Army into a leaderless horde, running headlong for Pusan,” one soldier later wrote.

Facts

• Korea split in half after World War II
• In July 1948 President Truman desegregated the military with an executive order that mandated “equality of treatment and opportunity” for all soldiers. Even so, separate black units remained the norm at the start of the Korean War. Piecemeal integration came when, as casualties mounted, field commanders of white units began accepting black replacements. More institutional change then occurred once General Matthew B. Ridgway, who called racial segregation “both un-American and un-Christian,” took over for MacArthur. By May 1952 he had integrated the entire Far East Command, and by September 1954 the rest of the armed forces had followed suit.

US Military Help

Work Cited

https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/korean-conflict/

http://www.history.com/news/8-things-you-should-know-about-the-korean-war

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/korean-war-2

Manly helped because of cold war politics.

On the eve of the North Korean invasion, a number of events had made Truman anxious. The Soviet Union exploded an atomic bomb in 1949, ending the United States' monopoly on the weapon. In Europe, Soviet intervention in Greece and Turkey had given rise to the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, which funneled aid to war-torn Europe in the hopes of warding off communist political victories.

by: Lisa Kolasa