·On June 25, 1950, the Korean War began when 75,000 North Korean soldiers invaded across the 38th parallel,
·The boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. In an effort to impose communism onto its neighbour. Up until WW II, Korea had been one nation, known as the Korean Peninsula, and was part of Japan. After WW II, the winners of the war divided it into two countries. The Soviet Union took the northern half, and the U.S. took control of the southern half. It was divided at the 38th parallel.
·The Korean War began at 4.30 a.m. on June 25, 1950, and ended on July 27, 1953.
·In March 2013, North Korea declared the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War invalid and so technically these countries are both still at war, without having a peace treaty signed.
·The U.S. dropped more bombs in Korea (635,000 tons, as well as 32,557 tons of napalm) than in the entire Pacific area during WW II.
·Although millions of people died during the Korean War, no side had won the war; neither the south nor the north had gained the best out each other, They both ended, with both sides neither losing or gaining land, only forming a heavy border at the 38th Parallel. However, South Korea can claim that it stopped North Korea from taking over and turning it into a communist nation.
·Both countries still remain divided, and North Korea still remains a heavily communist nation, with closed borders for its people and to the world.
·North Korea was supported by the USSR and the People’s Republic of China, which were both communist countries and considered superpowers of that time and even now.
·During the Korean War, South Korea was supported by the United States, Great Britain, and the United Nations, which all supported democracy and opposed the ruling communism.
·Even though 16 countries participated in the Korean War, it is not considered a world war. The following Fifteen part of the UN, sent combat troops to Korea: Australia, Belgium,Canada, Columbia, Ethiopia, France, Great Britain,Greece, Holland, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Philippines, South Africa, Thailand, and Turkey. Four countries sent medical assistance and aids:India,Italy, Norway, and Sweden.
·The United States entered the Korean War for two main reasons:
1) To protect South Korea and prevent communists from taking over other countries and spreading the influence of the communistic ideologies that the soviets had and the North Koreans had formed.
2) To protect Japan, which the U.S. thought would be next on the list of countries that the communists wanted to invade, which the US invested a great deal in and provided plenty of help to the Japanese to form a democratic country.
3) To test its military strength against the USSR and to create a heated war to get back to Russia and prove to be the greatest country, in terms of military and having the better ideology of democracy.