The Korean War1950 - 1953

•Containment•The United Nations

ON AUGUST 15TH 1948 THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH KOREA WITH ITS CAPITOL IN SEOUL IS

FOUNDED

ONE MONTH LATER THE COMMUNIST KOREAN PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC IS FOUNDED WITH ITS CAPITOL IN PYONGYANG

NORTH KOREA

SOUTH KOREA

OCTOBER 1ST 1949 THE COMMUNISTS WIN THE CHINESE CIVIL WAR AND THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA IS

ESTABLISHED WITH THE USSR AS ITS MAIN ALLY. IN THE US “LOSING CHINA” BECOMES A POLITICAL ISSUE. MAO ZEDONG,

COMMUNIST LEADER OF CHINA

KOREAN WAR: JUNE 1950 TO JULY 1953

THE UN SENT TROOPS TO FIGHT THE NORTH KOREAN FORCES BUT THE

BULK OF THE SOLDIERS CAME FROM THE US

NORTH KOREA

SOUTH KOREA

38TH PARALLEL DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA

THE COMMUNIST NORTH KOREANS

PUSHED THE SOUTH KOREAN

AND UNPREPARED US ARMIES ALL

THE WAY TO PUSAN IN THE SOUTH WHERE

THEY WERE FINALLY STOPPED

BY US FIREPOWER.

GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR WAS PUT IN OVERALL COMMAND OF UNITED

NATIONS FORCES

MACARTHUR MADE A BRILLIANT INVASION AT INCHON WHICH THREATENED TO TRAP

ALL THE NORTH KOREAN FORCES FIGHTING NEAR THE PUSAN PERIMETER

UN TROOPS ADVANCED RAPIDLY

AND ENTERED NORTH KOREA IN PURSUIT OF

FLEEING ENEMY ARMIES. ON

OCTOBER 19, 1950 CHINESE

COMMUNISTS TROOPS INVADED

NORTH KOREA AND PUSHED THE UN

ARMIES BACK SOUTH OF THE 38TH PARALLEL.

FORMER GENERAL DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER WAS ELECTED

PRESIDENT IN NOVEMBER 1952 WITH A PLEDGE TO GO TO KOREA AND END

THE WAR.

ON JULY 27TH 1953, AFTER THREE YEARS OF FIGHTING, AN ARMISTICE WAS SIGNED ENDING THE KOREAN

WAR. KOREA REMAINED DIVIDED AT THE 38TH PARALLEL.