Because MiG-15s are beating America's Lockheed P-80 Shooting Stars, the F-86 Sabre goes to Korea.The warning given by the Chinese is ignored by the UN (led by US General, Douglas MacArthur and so the Chinese the People's Liberation Army invades North Korea and helps the it fight the UN forces until they are pushed past the border.China starts to feel threatened since the war happens so close to it and so tells the UN and the South Korean Armies to return to the border and that they have no business to fight so far into North Korea.From there, they fight the North Korean army and push them past the border separating the Koreas and close to the Chinese border, just south of the Yalu River. The United Nations Army intervenes and lands at Incheon, a small port just about halfway down South Korea.Both powers argued mainly over fair border lines and the spread of communism. and Joseph Stalin had recently lost a Cold War dispute over the Berlin Blockade and subsequent airlift. The US Army was about one twelfth the size of five years earlier.
Relations between the two occupying powers were already bad, but when China became communist in October 1949, US President Harry Truman was very worried that other countries around China would go communist as well, such as Japan. The Cold War was an important cause in the Korean War. That became difficult because of the rise of the Cold War. It was at first meant to be only for a short time.Īt the Moscow Conference of the Council of Foreign Ministers in December 1945, the Americans and the Soviets agreed on Korea having a provisional government, which would not last long. After Japan surrendered, the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to split Korea into two temporary occupation zones, with the Soviets occupying the North and the Americans occupying the South. In 1910, Japan put Korea under Japanese rule and was still ruling when World War II ended. Both Koreas are divided by the Korean Demilitarized Zone, which crosses the 38th parallel. The war ended on April 27, but the United States still keeps troops in South Korea in case North Korea ever invades again. The south, led by nationalist Syngman Rhee, was helped by many countries in the United Nations, and especially by the United States. Other support came from Mongolia and India. There was medical support from Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Poland. The north, led by communist Kim Il-Sung, was helped mostly by People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union. The fighting stopped on July 27, 1953, after more than two million Koreans had been killed, mostly in the North.īoth sides blame each other for starting the war. The Korean War, also known as the Forgotten War, took place between 19 between the Republic of Korea (or South Korea), supported by the armed forces of several countries that were commanded by the United States, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (or North Korea), supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union.
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