Battle Of Inchon Essay

On June 25th, 1950 the Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea with about 75,000 initial soldiers. The war was being fought over communism, the simple idea that the South Koreans despised and the American government wanted to stop from spreading. The American government feared a so called domino effect which was the spreading of communism to any country near the founding country. For this reason the United States of America was willing to go to war, in July of 1950 the American military entered Korea to aid the South and protect their government. The American people were very reluctant to get into another war following the result of World War II. The men who were serving our country were short in numbers and most questioned their …show more content…
Inchon had lacked essential defenses that they needed because North Korea figured it would be too hard to execute a fill grade attack on the city based on tidal conditions and limited forces the South Koreans could spare on an attack like this. Countries aiding North Korea in the war sent various forms of weapons to surrond the city of inchon. One of the key weapons that could have helped North Korea maintain Inchon would have been more firepower from the mainland. The few defences that were put into place were underwater bombs, made for when a enemy vessical impacts them the undetected bomb is dentonated. Unfortunatly for the North Koreans MacArthur had a plan around these "undeteable" bombs. The crazy tides in Inchon played to MacArthur 's favor by exposing the bombs at low tide where his forces could easily fire guns or missles at them to detonate them and once high tides came around they would have a clear path to the capitol. This made it very easy for MacArthur to eliminate the only defenses the North had surroding the city. General MacArthur and his men would quickly make their push into the capital of Seoul in hopes of regaining the much needed