The korean war history

Historical Overview

After the WWII as all know the Soviet and US forces entered Korea and fought the Japanese and that’s how they decided to divide Korea into two halves which were North Korea and South Korea, after this in June 25, 1950 the North Korea decide to make use of the Soviet Union weapons to attack the South Korea because they knew that they didn’t have enough weapons to defend themselves. However some important facts that have a lot to do with the Korean war are that The economies of both North and South Korea took a major hit during and after the war it really affect them also because during the war a lot of civilians got killed from each side, another important fact is how the Soviet Union set up a communist government in North Korea by Kim sung II and the South Korea was established as an anti-communist by Dr Syngman Rhee, this country was divided by the alliance between the Soviet Union and the United States when it took responsibilities of Korea after the WWII, so for this reason those both countries took half and half of Korea. That’s how the Soviet Union as the leader of North Korea decided to change the government into a communism government which basically means that is a country which all the economic and social activities are controlled by a single person in the government that rule the country. So that’s how to be an anti-communism country as United States and South Korea have a different perspective about their rules, they were very strict, for this reason South Korea and US didn’t want to become a communism country, so then they could be a free country. Later on the Soviet Union decided to support North Korea to attack South Korea by providing them weapons and army forces. It has a great impact in United States when they noticed that it was happening because during this war they loose a lot of civilian lives and millions of money, and it was caused only because the Soviet Union (North Korea) wanted the United States and South Korea to reject the Democratic Party and become communism nation such as they do. Also the Korean War was the first real confrontation of the Cold War and it is how they set many of the standards for later conflicts in the Cold War.



Truman as a president of the United States wanted to end this war because besides it was causing a lot of dead and the military force leader of WWII “MacArthur he did not want to stop this war and go on because his propose was to strikes against targets china and said he would consider using the nuclear bomb”. It wasn’t fair because the only thing that MacArthur wanted is to get more power and get over other countries. He basically makes a lot of disagreements with Truman saying, “A war should be prosecuted to the greatest extent militarily possible without regard to diplomatic risks”. By a negotiation cease-fire between North and South Korea The Korean War ends on July 1953.



SOURCE LIST

- http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1629.html

- http://www.historycentral.com/postwar/Korea.html

- http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/kowar/kowar.html

- http://history-world.org/korean_war.html

- Book The Cold War by David Tailor (Korean War).