Korean War

With the victory at the conclusion of World War II, Americans experienced an all time high and viewed Dwight D. Eisenhower, Presidential candidate, as a savior—the man who defeated Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, and the man who ended the Korean War (after becoming President). Despite his early success, it soon became one of his administrations to avoid long, expensive, and inconclusive wars similar to Korea. While doing this, they also intended to balance the budget and control taxes and inflation.…

deuces: A Korean War Story While some argue that the US involvement with the Korean War was not a good idea, the truth is that there was a lot of reasoning for joining the Korean War because the “exportation” of communism and Korean was in a tense relation from the cold war and the development of stronger medical practice also racial integration and the over change of the United States structure. The first…

Korean War-In 1950 North Korean forces invaded the south. Stalin was hoping with soviet support that he would have his aims elsewhere. This attack caught the attention of President Truman and acting on the behalf of the United Nations sent American forces to fight them. Within a few months the UN Forces had advanced north of the 38th parallel and it looked like the North Korean regime would be overthrown. When the fighting approached the Yalu River China intervened and drove back the UN. Vietnam…

The US foreign policy during the cold war took place in many continents around the world. One of those continent was Asia, where Korea was involved. “Foreign Policy in the Pacific: a result of the Korean conflict SEATO, George Kennan, John Dulles, Roll-back, Brinkmanship, and Missile Gap.” The policy of containment had a gap and the Soviets stop seeing their activity in Europe started looking scenarios globe in places of great strategic and diplomatic difficulty for the US North Korea attacked…

On June 25, 1950, the state of North Korea attacked South Korea and started what is now known as the Korean War. Three years later, the war ended in a stalemate after 4 million people were killed. According to “North Korea | Facts and History,” North Korea has poured extensive resources into their military even though it’s agricultural output has been extremely poor. They…

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 he had known what would happen if MacArthur had gone to close to the China border. Which when MacArthur had went by the China border it had made chaos because over 300,000 troops from China had join North Korea which made the war last longer because China and North Korea had pushed the UN and South Korean troops past the 38th parallel. No…

At the end of World War II and finally liberated from nearly four decades of brutal occupation after Japanese defeat in 1945, the Korean peninsula found itself torn between two foreign ideologies. To the North of the 18th parallel was the Soviet Union leading the communist wing of the Korean resistance, while the United States fought for democracy from the South. On June 25th, 1950, the Soviet-backed communist North Korea pushed through the makeshift border and within weeks had invaded all but…

Douglas MacArthur’s involvement in and subsequent dismissal from the Korean War on the outcome of the war. The Korean War lasted between 1950-1953, and was fought between the communists and non-communists during the Cold War. Increasing tensions between North and South Korea initiated the war, resulting in the former invading the latter on 25 June 1950. Other countries soon became involved. The U.S. declared its decision to join the war in support of South Korea two days after the invasion,…

The Signal Corps played a vital role during the Korean and Cold Wars from 1946-1964. Significant advances during this period include the AN/GRC-26 mobile radio teletype station, the emergence of satellite communications, and the transistor. The end of World War II led to a drawdown and reorganization of not only the Signal Corps, but the entire Armed Forces. This led to the obstacle of doing “more with less.” The five Chief Signal Officers during this timeframe experienced unique challenges. The…

A war with similar causes to the Korean War was the Vietnam War. Similarly, the causes of the Vietnam War found its roots at the end of World War II. At that time the Japanese occupied a French colony, Indonesia. With the collapse of the colonial governments such as in Africa, the Pacific, and Asia the United States was at odds in keeping up with the spread of communism. In 1941 the Viet Minh, a Vietnamese National movement formed by Ho Chi Minh, resisted the occupants in Indonesia.…