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The Korean War The Korean War, a war that started out with a quick victory in mind, quickly became a war with between the two superpowers of its current generation. With communism hoping to spread to all corners of the world, only thing stopping it is democracy, it laid its sight on South Korea. A war that showed no promising result for both sides, yet committed over 1.3 million casualties. The war ended with both sides receive severe losses and gained very little in return. This war showed the…

This Source is Truman’s statement made for the invasion of South Korea by North Korean forces, on the 27th June 1950. Harry Truman was the prime minister of the United States in 1945-1953. He promotes capitalism and is strongly against communism. The purpose of this statement is to raise people’s fear of communism, order United States air and naval forces to fight and work together to fight against it, this includes people involved in the United Nations. In his statement, he announced the…

proxy wars. One of these proxy wars was the Korean War that began on June 25, 1950.…

were in a civil war, as they were opposed to each other’s regulations and ideas. The United Nations which included my country, Canada was stepping in to help, due to South Korea being its responsibility. Along with them came the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China to defend North Korea. This soon turned into an international crisis. With the election of new leaders, and this postwar separation, both sides started to discuss unification again, but the Soviet Union and China refused,…

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), most commonly referred to as North Korea, and is today seen as one of the greatest threats to world peace. With an arsenal that has grown substantially within the past decade, North Korea’s ‘military first’ policy has challenged the socialist ideology of a classless society. Empowering military leaders and provoking surrounding nations into regarding North Korea as an influential authority. In order to understand this authoritarian regime, that…

because of the restrictions Kim Jong-Un has enforced among all of the North Korean citizens; North Korea’s leader has put on the country. The discrimination against North Korean’s by their leader is highly unfair and should be stopped immediately. North Korea has been a communist country and controls their people since 1918, democracy is a better way of life and not all are lucky for example like the American citizens. North Koreans are a communist economy, they also live in a very cruel and…

The Korean War: Action and Reaction The most interesting fact that I learned recently is that my grandmother had gone through the devastating Korean War when she was only 9-year old. To me, who spent more than ten years of my childhood with my grandmother rather than my parents, the fact that my grandmother was once a war refugee did not match up with my depiction of her as an optimistic and dedicated pharmacist who loved helping other people. The general image of war refugees which i have…

of refugees constantly settled adrift by the changing tide of battle. Three million Korean civilians were estimated to have died within the three years of war. What appeared simply as a “border dispute between two unstable dictatorships”,(SOURCE) unfortunately appeared to be the initial step in a communist campaign for power. There will be further exploration on the Cold War influence on what came to be the Korean War and devastating effects. Korea was no stranger to war, with common borders…

In the northern portion of the Korean Peninsula, bordering the Korean Bay and Sea of Japan, North Korea makes up for more than half of the entire area. Twenty percent larger than South Korea, at 46,540 square miles, it is comparable to the size of Mississippi. The vast majority of the land consists of mountains and narrow valleys, making it so only about one-fourth of the country to has inhabitants. Due to the deforestation of the land for agricultural purposes, it is becoming more and more…

The Korean War was a war between South Korea and North Korea. The drastic situation of the war caused for the joining of multiple nations supporting the communist side, and the United Nations. The United Nations had the goal of stopping the spread of communism and the threat it poses. This long war was the first that involved battles between jet aircraft. It also was the first war that an international organization, the United Nations, was in through military involvement (Armstrong, 2015, p.…