Before the second World War has started, the Korean Peninsula had been a part of Japan. After the war had ended, it needed to be split up. The Northern part went under the control of the Soviet Union and the Southern part under the control of the United States. The Soviet Union was communist and the United States was against communism. The two sides were divided at the 38th parallel. Both sides, the North and South, were not getting along and they were having constant skirmishes and battles along the border at the 38th parallel. Attempts were made to negotiate a unified country and for all to get along, but the negotiations were going nowhere. So in the year 1950 the Korean War started, June 25th to be more exact. But before all of this started,
