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USSR, with the 38th parallel serving as a temporary boundary between the Soviet and American zones of…

jumped in to help defend what we now call South Korea. This small battle between the North and the South of Korea started little, but when an additional country jumps in you can 't do much but call this war. The Korean War started when Korea was one solid country. Nowadays Korea is two separate countries. There is North Korea and there is South Korea. North Korea were more of trouble makers than anything else. North Korea didn 't have much and they were too lazy to do anything peaceful…

MacArthur had reacted to the events that were in Korea so he had the UN troops help him since he had the okay from Truman. He had surprised North Korea when he and the UN had attack them, but he was also going to invade China. Truman had given the job to MacArthur because Truman wanted peace between North and South Korea but Truman had not wanted the Chinese to have a reason to join the war so he had told MacArthur to stay away from the China border. I believe that it would be Truman's because…

The Korean division started the day the 38th parallel was settled on during the Potsdam Conference nearing the end of the Second World War. The 38th parallel was to serve as the dividing line of Korea, which was going to be occupied by the Soviet troops in the north and American troops in the south. Both international powers were set to help countries re-establish themselves in the world following WWII. The Americans vowed to help any country threatened by communism (Truman Doctorine, March 12th…

still take the chance. Soo Kan is the main character of the novel, the Year of Impossible Goodbyes written by Sook Nyul Choi. She and her brother, Inchun live in Kirimni, Pyeongyang. As soon as the country is free from Japan, the Russians take over North Korea. Once again their freedom is limited from the “Town Reds”. However, in the south, it is known that freedom exists. Soo Kan and her brother take the chance and escape to the south when they know that they can die if they are caught. Soo Kan…

Similarly, the Chinese Republic supported Communist North Korea. Mao began to fear that the United Nations would push into Manchuria as they drove the North Koreans back. As a result, he ordered two hundred thousand troops to drive the United Nations back to the 38th parallel. During this conflict, the Soviet Union played a significant role in China and Korea’s success, as the Soviet Union provided materials, medical services, and air crafts to aid the North Korean and Chinese forces. Therefore,…

North Korea’s Desire for Nuclear Weapons Political Science 370-International Conflict Jacob Schmitt Abstract As we consider the possibility of North Korea obtaining more advanced nuclear weapons while also becoming more vocal about their desire to use them in influencing global politics, we ask ourselves, “Why nuclear? Why a sudden surge of activity in North Korea?”. To understand this sudden assertion by North Korea, it is important to consider the historical context of this conflict…

Peninsula in 1948 extended the division between the two sides, and the North settled a Communist government. The 38th Parallel gradually turned into a political fringe between the two Koreas. In spite of the fact that reunion arrangements proceeded in the months going before the war, strain increased. Cross-fringe engagements and strikes at the 38th parallel endured. The circumstance improved into open fighting at the point when North Korean strengths attacked South Korea on 25 June 1950. It was…

influence on the Korean Peninsula by occupying the southern part of that area”(Boundless.com). This expresses that the United States got involved in South Korea with the primary and sole purpose of hindering the expansion of the communist ideology. Before North Korea attacked South Korea, there were several communist groups lurking within South Korea. With the U.S. in South Korea, the communists under the Soviet Union were not able to accomplish as much as they possibly could. In the government…

control of Korea from the annexation they made in 1910. April 1945 the Yalta Conference agreed to make a four power trusteeship for Korea near the end of World War two. Korea was split into two pieces, North and South Korea. The United States had control of the southern part of Korea below the 38th parallel, and the Soviet Union occupying the northern area. Later on in that year it was settled that the country would be reconnected and made an independent country after a five year wait. Though…