Korea - The Forgotten War

Movie:

• The North and South Korean governments kept an uneasy peace between 1945 and 1950.
• On July 15, 1950 the war started, 100,00 people in the military were sent into South Korea from North Korea to try and take it over.
• North Korea was getting supplies from the Soviet Union.
• President Truman was afraid the North Korean invasion was the beginning to a Soviet Plan to conquer the free world.
• The UN called an emergency session and the absence of the USSR helped the U.S., Britain, and France to come to a resolution urging other countries to help South Korea against the attack.
• North Korea seemed unbeatable but South Korea and allies would not withdraw.
• McCarthur was able to change the whole course of the Korean War in just two short days.
• McCarthur's victory grew to devastation thanks to the Korean winter.
• China joined the war on the North Korean side.
• By June of 1953 North Korea and other's stopped fighting at the 38th parallel.
• Altho, two years passed before all fighting ended in Korea.
• U.S. fought the war to prevent communism from spreading across Asia.

ABC - CLIO Korean War:

• In September, McCarthur's Inchon campaign (Operation Chromite) defeated the North Korean army and put the UN on the offensive.
• After a long time the UN was finally able to beat the Chinese and put their army on a defensive line across the 18 parallel.
• In December 1952, President Eisenhower visited Korea to make his own personal appraisal.