Monday:
- Notes over Korean War
Tuesday:
- Decades project work day
Wednesday:
- Decades presentations started yet
Thursday:
- Decades work day
Friday:
- Presentations
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Korean War Conflict
- The Forgotten War
- In Korea
- 5 years after WWII
- North and South still at war today
- Costly war
- North Korea
- Nuclear Weapons
- Communist
- Kim Jong- un
- Origins;
- Korea was invaded and ruled by Japan from 1910 until 1945
- After WWII, Korea was split into two- North (USSR) and South (US) at the 38th parallel
- An election was going to be held to eventually unify Korea
- The United Nations held an 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 Korean Communist Party under Kim IL- Sung
- The South elected the nationalist exile Syngman Rhee
- US government stated in January, 1950, that Korea was "outside of our defnse perimeter"
- This encouraged North Korea to be aggressive
- South Korean President Syngman Rhee and North Korean leader Kim II - Sung...
- The People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union were wary of a war in Korea
- Mao and Stalin were concerned that it would encourage American intervention in Asia after just leaving
- Kim was able to manipulate both Mao and Stalin into supporting their invasion of South Korea
- War Begins
- US pulls out, North Korea gets permission and invades the South, they do extremely well and push South into the Pusan Perimeter, United Nations votes to send troops to help South, with the UN invasion South gained a lot and pushed North way back up. China assumes UN is going to come in and attack them. China invades and pushed South back down, we hold out and push them back.
- United Nations Police Action
- United Nations Security Council voted to send troops to help South Korea
- US, Great Britain, France, China, and the Soviet Union were permanent members that could veto the "police action"
- Why didn't the USSR and or China veto this proposal?
- Tiwan (officially China)
- China was communist China
- Douglas MacArthur thought that spreading the war to China was a good idea, was told to be very careful
- Truman had to fire him because he was doing opposite of what he was being told
- 1951
- He was talking Nuclear War
- One of the biggest heroes of WWII
- DNZ - Demilitarized zone
- North Korean troops on one side and South Korean and American troops on the other
- Dwight Eisenhower fulfilled a campaign promise by going to Korea to find out what could be done to end the conflict
- no peace treaty has been signed to date
- The Korean War was the first armed confrontation of the Cold War, and it set a model for many later conflicts
- it created the idea of a limited war, where the two superpowers would/ could fight without using nuclear weapons
- Expanded the Cold War
- Almost 30,000 US troops are still stationed on the border today
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