THE KOREAN WAR

SECTION 4

COMMUNIST CHINA CHINA’S MONARCHY FELL IN 1912 DURING THE 1920s THE CHINESE

NATIONALIST PARTY AND THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PART FOUGHT A BITTER CIVIL WARCHINESE NATIONALIST LEADER

CHIANG KAI-SHEKCHINESE COMMUNIST LEADER

MAO ZEDONG (MAE TSE TUNG)

COMMUNIST CHINA DURING THE 1930s BOTH SIDES JOINED

TOGETHER TO FIGHT THE JAPANESE IN 1934, ABOUT 100,000 NATIONALIST

SOLDIERS LEFT THE ARMY AND FOLLOWED MAO ON A 6000 MILE MARCH TO NORTHWEST CHINABECAME KNOW AS THE LONG MARCH

THE U.S. BACKED THE NATIONALISTS IN 1949 THE COMMUNISTS DROVE THE

NATIONALIST GOVERNENT TO THE ISLAND OF TAIWAN

COMMUNIST CHINA U.S. REFUSED TO RECOGNIZE THE NEW

COMMUNIST GOV’TMANY AMERICANS BLAMED THE U.S. GOV’T

FOR NOT TAKING A MORE ACTIVE ROLL TO STOP THE COMMUNIST TAKE OVER OF CHINA

THE COLD WAR IN ASIA DOUGLAS MACARTHUR HELPED CREATE

A U.S. STYLE CONSTITUTION FOR JAPANGAVE MORE POWER TO THE JAPANESE

PEOPLE WOMEN GOT THE RIGHT TO VOTE

THIS CONSTITUTION MADE IT ILLEGAL FOR JAPAN TO FIGHT IN WARS

JAPAN HAD CONTROLLED THE KOREAN PENINSULA FROM 1910-1945ALLIES DIVIDED THE PENINSULA INTO 2

OCCUPATIONAL ZONES THE NORTH WOULD BE CONTROLLED BY THE

USSR THE SOUTH WOULD BE CONTROLLED BY THE

U.S.

THE COLD WAR IN ASIA

38TH PARALLEL

THE COLD WAR IN ASIA KOREA WAS SPLIT INTO 2 GOV’TS

DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF NORTH KOREA RUN BY THE SOVIETS

REPUBLIC OF KOREA RUN BY THE U.S.

THE U.S. AND USSR TROOPS LEFT KOREA IN 1949BOTH GOV’TS CLAIMED THE ENTIRE

PENINSULA JUNE 25, 1950 THE NORTH KOREAN ARMY

INVADED THE SOUTH SOUTH KOREAN ARMY WAS NO MATCH

THE COLD WAR IN ASIA THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL

IMMEDIATELY ASKED FOR A CEASE FIRE NORTH KOREANS CONTINUED THEIR

ASSAULT THE U.S. DECIDED TO TAKE ACTION

WAR IN KOREA JUNE 27, 1950 THE UN CALLED ON ITS

MEMBERS TO SUPPORT THE SOUTH KOREANS

THE SOVIET REPRESENTATIVE WAS NOT THERE B/C THEY WERE BOYCOTTING THE UN

UN VOTED TO SUPPORT THE SOUTH TRUMAN ORDERED THE USE OF

AMERICAN FORCES TO SUPPORT THE SOUTH

SENT IN GENERAL MACARTHURBECAME THE COMMANDER OF UN FORCES

IN SOUTH KOREA MAINLY MADE UP OF U.S. AND SOUTH KOREANS

WAR IN KOREA BY SEPT. THE NORTH KOREAN FORCES

ADVANCED ALL THE WAY TO THE AREA AROUND PUSAN

FOUGHT FOR 6 WKS

WAR IN KOREA MACARTHUR DECIDED TO COME UP

WITH A DARING PLAN INVADE THE NORTH KOREANS AT A TOWN

CALLED INCH’ŎN NOT FAR FROM SEOUL

(CAPITOL OF SOUTH KOREA)

WAR IN KOREA INCH’ŎN

WAS A SURPRISE ATTACK ON SEPTEMBER 15, 1950

VERY SUCCESSFUL DROVE THE NORTH KOREANS OUT OF SOUTH

KOREA MACARTHUR’S FORCES PUSHED INTO

NORTH KOREA CAPTURED P’YŎNGYANG (NORTH KOREAN

CAPITAL) BORDER BETWEEN NORTH KOREA AND CHINA,

EVENTUALLY GOT TO THE YALU RIVER NORTH KOREA AND CHINA

WAR IN KOREA CHINESE SOLDIERS HAD BEEN FIGHTING ON

THE NORTH KOREAN SIDE FOR SOME TIME NOW HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF

CHINESE ENTER THE WAR THEY DROVE THE UN FORCES BACK ACROSS

AND BELOW THE 38TH PARALLEL MACARTHUR WANTED GROUND AND AIR

ATTACKS ON CHINA TRUMAN REFUSED MACARTHUR WROTE A LETTER TO MEMBERS OF

CONGRESS TO PUSH FOR THE USE OF ATOMIC WEAPONS

WAR IN KOREA AS A RESULT, TRUMAN RELIEVED

MACARTHUR OF HIS DUTY AS GENERAL BY EARLY IN 1951, THE UN OFFENSIVE

PUSHED THE KOREANS BACK ACROSS THE 38TH PARALLEL

THE ELECTION OF 1952 THE WAR BECAME A STALEMATE BY MID

1951 WAS THE MAJOR ISSUE IN THE ELECTION

OF 1952 TRUMAN DECIDED TO NOT SEEK RE-

ELECTION DEMOCRATS CHOSE

ADLAI STEVENSON REPUBLICANS CHOSE

WAR HERO DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERVP CANDIDATE WAS RICHARD NIXON

THE ELECTION OF 1952 NIXON

WAS ACCUSED OF RECEIVING ILLEGAL GIFTS FROM A NUMBER OF WEALTHY POLITICAL DONORS

WENT ON TV AND CLAIMED THAT ONE OF THE GIFTS WAS A PUPPY NAMED CHECKERS

“CHECKERS SPEECH” IKE EASILY WON THE

ELECTION

THE END OF THE WAR BEFORE IKE TOOK OFFICE, HE MADE A

TRIP TO KOREADECEMBER OF 1952

STALIN DIES IN 1953 BOTH USSR AND U.S. WANTED THE WAR

TO END JULY 27, 1953 THE WAR ENDED

SIGNED A CEASE FIRE EVEN AFTER THE WAR WAS FOUGHT, THE

BOUNDARY BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA REMAINED ABOUT THE SAME AS IT WAS BEFORE THE WAR

THE ELECTION OF 1952 WAR STATS

SOUTH KOREAN CASUALTIES 845,000

U.S. CASUALTIES 155,000

NORTH KOREAN AND CHINESE CASUALTIES 1.5 MILLION

ABOUT 3 MILLION CIVILIANS WERE KILLED TODAY THE TWO COUNTRIES ARE STILL

SEPARATED BY THE DEMILITARIZED ZONE THAT WAS CREATED IN 1953 IT IS THE MOST HEAVILY GUARDED BORDER IN

THE WORLD TODAY