What was the significance of the Korean war to US history?

Answer 1

The Korean War was significant for several reasons. I don't pretend to know them all, but here are the ones that stick out in my mind. First, the invasion of South Korea was an armed attack by communist forces on a democratic country. The North Korean "Fatherland Liberation War" had the objective of bringing their southern brothers and sisters into the peace-loving embrace of Kim Il Sung's Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The spread of communism in Asia was not something the United States could allow in the early stages of the Cold War. Second, it was one of two, possibly three, major "proxy wars" fought between the United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold War. While the majority of the Cold War was based on posturing, the Korean War and later the Vietnam War were actually armed conflicts. The other war which fits this description is the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Answer 2

There are several reasons the Korean War is significant. For one, it was quite destructive, despite the limited time it occured. But perhaps the reason it is significant is mostly due to the fact that it was the first armed conflict during the Cold War.

Answer 3

Because harison wanted their men but they wouldn't give them to him

In 1949 the Korean president decleard that Korea was now now a communist nation and would expand its borders to all of Asia. The UN would not stand for this and decleard war upon Korea.

Answer 4

By preventing North Korea from conquering South Korea, the US improved its strategic position in the Cold War. Since the Cold War is now over, it is difficult to know if the Korean War was really necessary for US interests, although there is no doubt that South Korea is much better off than it would have been under the Kim Dictatorship.

Answer 5

It was a proxy war. At the time, the Communist societies and the Western world were competing for an advantage over one another, and to stop the spread of the other factions form of government. When the Communist North Korea invaded a capitalist South Korea, both sides saw it as an opportunity to gain an advantage in Asia. So, intense fighting began, and direct confrontations between Chinese and American soldiers became common. It was ice for the Cold War.

Answer 6

It showed the will power of free nations not to allow one nation to try to rule

over another nation by a military force invasion

Answer 7

cuz