Korean War

The United Nations was established by the victors of World War II: the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, China (under Kuomintang control at the time), and France in order to preserve peace in a post-World War world. The United Nations is divided into six major political organizational bodies: the General Assembly, Security Council, International Court of Justice, Trusteeship Council, Economic and Social Council, and the Secretariat. The UN's first major military action was in 1950 in the wake of the Korean Conflict after North Korean troops, armed with Soviet-made weaponry, invaded the non-communist regime of the South. The United States and the UN then sent mainly volunteers and veterans of the Second World War to fight the war in Korea. The United States General, General Douglas MacArthur, was appointed as supreme commander of the UN forces and helped resist the North Korean attack on the South. After the Northern attack was repelled, MacArthur decided to invade North Korea itself, which the South Korean regime overwhelmingly approved. Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, was soon taken. However, UN and American forces threatened the Communist Chinese to the North and after MacArthur reached the Yangtze River, Chinese forces began to attack the UN forces. The Chinese then decided to aid the North Koreans in resisting the American/UN attack and focus on attacking the South. MacArthur was soon relieved of his command by President Truman after forcing the Chinese into the conflict. Truman and his military advisers were down to additional conventional weapons and soldiers and the non-conventional atom bombs. However, nuclear bombs would cause the Soviet Union to get more involved and a possible nuclear confrontation would become inevitable. To replace MacArthur was General Ridgeway who effectively used his American/UN forces to repel the Chinese/North Korean assault on the South through a defensive campaign known as Ridgeway's Meat Grinder. The war soon culminated in a stalemate and a cease-fire was agreed to. The UN, a couple years before the start of the Korean Conflict (1950-1953), had to deal with the mess of the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Palestinian states. The Jewish population that had mainly emigrated from Eastern Europe to Palestine after the First World War and after the terrible Holocaust were in for a surprise as many of Palestine's inhabitants, at the time, were Muslims. After the First World War (1914-1918), Syria was given to France wheras Palestine was made a British mandate. The Arabs that had fought alongside British and French commanders against the Ottoman Turks during the First World War were deeply disappointed that a nation-state for the Arabs was not erected under British or French observation. Rather, the Arabs were somewhat discontent with the European powers as the Balfour Declaration in the years simultaneous to the First World War promised Jews a homeland in Palestine. Thousands of Eastern European and Anglo-Jewish families emigrated to Palestine, upsetting the native population there. During the Nazi German regime from 1933-1945, the National Socialist (Nazi) Party barred German Jews from prospering in business or even running for public office. The German Jews were deported and other things in the beginning of the Nazi regime but soon were exposed to harsher and crueler punishments. Beginning on the eve of the Polish invasion, the Germans began to permanently solve the Jewish problem through a wholly inhumane "Final Solution" that order the mass slaughter of a whole race. Millions of Jews, along with other undeseriables such as Eastern European Slavs, homosexuals, handicaps, and etc. were gruesomely executed. At the end of the war, when Soviet and American troops entered concentration camps, they were all moved by tears of sorrow. The Holocaust is still remembered by Americans and peoples of the Free World as for a reminder to not permit the same mistake again. The British, after the war, were deciding whether or not to liberate Palestine from their control, but were hesistant. However, the UN decided that it would be best for the Palestinian and the Jewish populations would have both two independent states in Palestine but the Palestines did not agree to it. The Zionist Movement in the late 19th Century to the mid-20th Century inspired thousands of Jews to immigrate to Palestine, which angered the surrounding natives there severely. The UN decided to liberate Israel as a new country. On May 11, 1948, the last British forces pulled out of Palestine while armies from the surrounding Arab countries attacked. However, they were all or mostly unorganized and usually inadequately armed or supplied and were less than a match for the superior Israeli forces. In 1949, a cease-fire was agreed to between the Arabs and the Israelis, ending the first of four Arab-Israeli Wars (including the Sinai Campaign).

MacArthur believed that expanding the war and moving forces to the Yalu, along with use of additional friendly forces would force China to stop fighting in support of North Korea and result in final victory for UN forces. MacArthur was aware that Chinese forces were already supporting North Korean forces, but was unaware of the massing of forces taking place in China and being encouraged by China in Russia that may have preempted his proposed strategy. Truman was afraid this strategy would bring Russia into the war and potentially could lead to atomic war, and therefore wanted to use a "containment strategy" that would limit the scope and avoid expansion of additional international involvement. MacArthur was outspoken and aggressive in his pursuit of following through on his plans and disobeyed the lawful order of the President to obtain clearance. Despite the obvious liabilities associated with dismissing an extremely beloved commander, Truman's hand was forced and MacArthur was dismissed.

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.

Korea's primary ally was China, who supplied weapons and soldiers to the Korean Army during a majority of the Korean War.

Many would agree that the Soviet Union was also an ally to North Korea, but China certainly made more of an impact.

On 25 June 1950, the young Cold War suddenly turned hot, bloody and expensive. Within a few days, North Korea's invasion of South Korea brought about a United Nations' "police action" against the aggressors. That immediately produced heavy military and naval involvement by the United States. While there were no illusions that the task would be easy, nobody expected that this violent conflict would continue for more than three years

Part of the cold war; the North invaded the South.

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The Korean war was the first hot war in the cold war.

Americans believed that the Communist invasion of southern Korean would encourage other Communist uprisings in the region.

North Korea and South Korea lie on the Korean Peninsula.

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No. Its two completely separate conflicts. The motives for both wars are however similar, as they both relate to the cold war. Both wars started because of the wests, mostly USA, efforts to stop the spread of communism. As the Korean war was seen as a succes on USAs behalf, the Vietnam war was a complete failure.

Korea is by the 38th parallel, about even with Oregon & California. The Philippines are around the 15th parallel about even with Central America (El Salvador, Costa Rica, etc.).

South Koreans had little weapons and military because the Korean war took place soon after WWII. WWII ended in 1945 and the Korean war started in 1950. So South Korea was still "recovering" from the second world war. Many South Korean cities were bombed or heavily damaged as the North Koreans invaded. It was also hard because the homes were distroyed and children were separated from there parents and wound up left in the street. It was a very hard time for South Korea. The North Koreans were at first unchecked in their invasion of the South, however, once the United Nations cited North Korea as the aggressors and authorized UN members to stop the invasion the situation changed. UN forces, led by the US military pushed the invaders back into the North. It was then that North Korean civilians were victims of collateral damages. When Communist China aided the North Korean communists, the situation for the latter two nations improved.

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No. North Korea's military contains old equipment and ineffective technology. North Korea relies very heavily on the fact that it does not actually have to engage its forces against its enemies, rather it relies on the myth of greatness in the show of numbers and display of fanaticism and loyalty.

N Korean soldiers are considered fanatical and are considered loyal as long as its forces remain intact. They however, lack the ability to adapt and act independently when their planned environment disintegrates.

US/South Korean tanks and missiles can engage and destroy the DPRK vehicles long before the N Korean vehicles are in range to return fire. N Korea has no answer to US and South Korean long range Air to Air missiles, they have no answer to US GPS guided cruise missiles and no answer to GPS guided precision air to ground bombs. The US has long ago worked out counter measures to all of the N Korean 70s and 80s technology, while impressive on battlefield demonstrations, these rapid fire behemoths are generally not effective in the 21st century.

The US strategy would be to rely on precision attacks that overwhelm the approaching enemy with overwhelming firepower.

Every last N Korean naval ship would be destroyed before any US ship was in range of N Korean guns. Every N Korean air squadron would be grounded or destroyed with a couple of days.

The 30 year period from 1980-2010 was the greatest leap in military technology ever with the rise of micro electronics, laser sensing and GPS. The N Koreans simply have missed that leap.

A conflict between North Korea and South Korea\US would resemble more Kuwait/Iraq 1991 than Kursk. The N Koreans would put up pockets of resistance in certain mountainous areas, however the US/S Korean strategy at that point would likely be to stand off those skirmishes and wait out the collapse of the N Korean military.

As far as nukes are concerned, the US/S Koreans would likely no want to obliterate N Korea even if the North attempted an attack. The North has very few nukes and no real way to affectively launch a nuke attack. The best they could ever do would be to threaten a civl catastrophe. If they succeeded in causing a massacre of civilians in the South with a couple of bombs, it would only hasten the North's downfall.

The US would not allow a post nuke attack N Korea to stand.

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The Korean War was fought between the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). Each country allied themselves with a major power during the conflict. South Korea was assisted by the United States, while North Korea was assisted by China and Russian military advisors.

Yes. In fact, Mexico is one of the original founding members of the United Nations Charter signed on June 26, 1945

The main causes of the war in Lebanon was the fact that the Syrian government had forced itself into Lebanon, and the Lebanese did not like this. Also in Lebanon, there was a war between Christians and Muslims. The cause of the Lebanese civil war was neither exclusively internal nor exclusively external, nor was its settlement. The civil war came to an end at a specific historical juncture when movement toward internal reconciliation coincided with favorable regional and international developments.

The effects of the Lebanon war started with an economy that went down and was no longer effective. But more importantly, the war caused a huge damage in all the cities in Lebanon. At that time, Lebanon did really need a rebuilding situation in all aspects. Moreover, There was a great loss of people where as today, some dead bodies still hidden underground since the war. In the late 1960s, especially after the 1967 war, internal and regional changes began to adversely affect Lebanon. Internally, so- political polarization among the Lebanese increased. There was a growing migration of the rural population to Beirut, moving into poverty belts around the city, and suffering from rising inflation and cost of living. So - political tensions fueled rural uprisings and workers' strikes, and the emergence of a militant student protest movement.

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Could've been GEN MacArthur with his WWII win win attitude. And it could've been Pres Truman replying back with his, "...this is the wrong war, with the wrong people, at the wrong time..." and Mac was relieved of command (fired in civilian terms).