Did World War 2 cause the Korean War?

Answer 1

Not a great deal except that long before WWII Korea had been a Japanese colony so after the war it was taken away from them and occupied by allied troops. The Russians occupied the North and set up a communist Dictatorship. The U.S. occupied the South and permitted a relatively free, though not truly democratic, regime to be established. Thus the country was split and Russia misunderstood certain American signals and allowed their side to try to invade the South.

My thoughts on the subject

Based on the history involved it is clear that the decision by the US and Soviet Union to occupy all Japanese held territories was the catalyst for the Korean War. At the end of World War II it was decided that the Soviet military would invade the Korean Peninsula from the north, halting their advance at the 38th parallel, while US forces were to invade from the south with the same stopping point. While Korea had been under Japanese rule for many years, this was the point at which there was a "split." It is possible that if only one of the two invaders had controlled the whole country, the Korean War would never have taken place. That was not an option that either side seriously entertained.

Answer 2

In a way WW1 resulted in WW2, for a number of reasons; 1. The German Army returned to Germany with Parades and in Good Order, giving the impression that they had Won despite what the Papers in other Countries Said.

2. Germany Lost a great deal of territory to the victors, and the main loss was of the Ruhr which was the main power house of the country, resulting in a mass loss of industry, or at least, the profits to Germany, [most going to the French], and this gave the Germans a 'loss of face' and even worse, the French tended to rub the Germans noses in it....A bad and Dangerous thing to do to a Nation as proud as the Germans.

3. Further, as stated above, the Germans were a very proud people, and to have French Troops on their 'holy soil' they did not like it.

4. On top of all this, there was massive inflation, and loss of jobs to the German People, and this opened up the way for extremists to point out that though they, the German People were starving, the French, AND THE JEWISH Money men were getting rich on the backs of the poor Germans. This opened up the other idea that was in public minds at the time, that the War had been lost because the 'jewish' money men had betrayed Germany, resulting in loosing the War...All rubbish of course, but believed by the people, so by the 1920s they were ready to follow, at first in little ways, the hot heads like the communists or the peoples workers party, which in time turned into the Nazi's.

One must not overlook the effects the Treaty of Versailles had on unifying the German people under Hitler. Hitler could not have become leader without a rallying point; the punitive and vindictive measures of the 1919 treaty gave him a plethora of rallying points. It has been argued that had the Treaty of Versailles not been so punitive, Hitler would not have arisen to power.

Answer 3

No. Japan grabbed Korea in 1909, and kept it until they lost WWII, in 1945. During WWII millions of Koreans were basically slaves to the Japanese. The men were taken from home and sent to the islands the Japanese were holding, and forced to help build the defenses - concrete and log pillboxes and bunkers, caves blasted and chipped from solid coral, airfields. When the US invasion came, the Japanese put guns to their heads and forced them to fight the Americans. Almost all of them died. Korean women were taken from home and forced to be prostitutes for the Japanese army. There were hundreds of thousands of these Korean "comfort women".

At the end of WWII the Soviet Union, which had not fought the Japanese, declared war on Japan the day after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. This was so the Soviets could gobble up everything they could from the Japanese. Soviet troops got to northern Korea, and American troops to southern Korea. This led to Korea being divided, with a Russian dominated Communist puppet state in the north, and a democratic state in the south. The northern dictator, with Russia's blessing, decided to try to "unite" Korea under his own benevolent leadership, once the Americans had withdrawn their troops from the south. He had a Russian trained and equipped Army, with Russian guns, cannon, tanks and equipment, and invaded the south in June 1950. That's what started the Korean War. The son of that dictator is the nutbag dictator of North Korea today, one of the most awful places to try to live anywhere on the planet.

Answer 4

No. World War II lasted from 1939-1945. the Korean War was from 1950-1953 (though it is technically still going on).

Just to be pedantic, there has still been no Peace Treaty between the warring powers in WW2, so that is still technically going on.

Answer 5

yes it was. the Korean conflict wasnt until the fifties and ww2 ended with the atomic bomb in the forties.

Answer 6

it sarted because a man named joesph stalin requested a war after
/during the wa strted which made Japan safe.

Answer 7

unlikely.................