Wednesday April 16

Korea

  • call the "forgotten war"
  • Korea was invaded and ruled by Japan from 1910 until 1945
  • After WWII, Korea was split at the 38th parallel line. North USSR and South Allies
  • An election was going to be held to eventually unify Korea
  • The United States held and election in 1948
  • The Soviet Union refused to allow participation in the election in their occupied zone
  • instead, they handed over power to the North Korea communist party under kim il sung
  • Us government stated in January, 1950 that Korea was "outside of our defense perimeter"
  • this encouraged North Korea to be aggressive 
  • following the discovery of North Korea army units posing as civilian refugees, it became the military policy of the US armed forces to shoot at approaching civilians refugees in south Korea
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