Korean War Research Paper

“‘I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, 'Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?’”said Clint Eastwood, during an interview reminiscing over his time he served. The Korean War started because North Korea invaded South Korea in an attempt to bring communism to the south. The Americans sided with the south to try to stop the spread of communism. The United States (U.S.) and the United Nation (U.N.) did not believe in a communistic society. This brought in western countries to help out which lead to millions deaths and billions of dollars lost. Which leads into the beginning of the war. Before the Korean war began the North was invading …show more content…
There are roughly 8,000 people unaccounted for in Korea. We had about 34,000 deaths in some sort of combat situation,and almost 3,000 in a situation the was non-hostile. America had a total of 36,574 deaths in theatre. That doesn’t even include American troops that were wounded in action; there were 103,284 people wounded. There were 217,000 military deaths in south Korea and over 1 million civilian deaths. Some of the non-combat deaths were caused in many different ways; such as frostbite, hypothermia, asbestos, radiological poisoning, lead poisoning and other harmful chemicals Along with the deaths of people war brings other costs as well. The Korean War cost the United States roughly $67 billion dollars (fast facts). It cost the out there countries close to $50 billion dollars. In all that money that included casualties, aircraft, fuel, guns and ammo and food for the soldiers. During 1953 it cost the Americans $30 billion dollars and that was equivalent to $341 billion dollars in 2011. During the last year of the war the annual expenditure comprised about 14.1% of the American gross domestic product. After all that action the war finally had to come to an end at some