Korean War

President Truman. General McCarthur requested permission to bomb or nuke china during the Korean War. Truman was furious at this request and denyed it in fear of a major war with china instead of the small one they were having. McCarthur was then releived of his duties i beleive.

Korean War 25 June 1950-27 July 1953.
It began June 25th, 1950, the cease fire was signed July 27th, 1953, oddly enough, the war has never ended officially.

My suggestion to you is to first (see the link below). It has some very good information with accurate timelines. You can also look in your local library. Try to find books about the Korean War or the Forgotten War.

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Korea was the FIRST "Hot" battle of the Cold War. Vietnam was the SECOND "Hot" battle of the Cold War. The Communists lost (or stalemated) with the first battle, but won the second battle. The communists were contained in Korea. They expanded in Vietnam.
The policy of containment in Vietnam was a US foreign policy to contain and isolate the spread of communism to neighboring countries. If communism were not contained in North Vietnam, then South Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand would inevitably become communist as well.

It was feared that the United States would attack Communist China directly to stem the flow of Chinese fighting along side the North Korean army. The Chinese would then call on their Communist allies, the Soviet Union, to help the Chinese. The Soviets would then intervene either directly in China, or in a move to draw the United States off balance, the Soviets would launch an attack against perhaps Europe or Japan. In addition, it could not be certain if the United States or the Soviets would go nuclear in such an exchange. Thus, the Korean war could have turned into World War III. However, to forstall that, United States President Harry S Truman did not escalate the Korean "police action". Indeed, President Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur to ensure it did not happen. It was General MacArthur who advocated taking the battle to the Communist Chinese in their own country.

Until substantial ground forces of Communist China entered the conflict in 1951, the Korean War was in fact being won by the associated American, international (or, United Nation), and (South) Korean troops arrayed against their North Korean enemy. With the entry of China, fortunes reversed several times for each side before a shaky truce was arranged in 1953.

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there were two leaders. one for the north and one for the south

If one looks at the wall of faces, he can see the reflection of all 19 statues for a total of 38, representing the 38th parallel. The original plan was to have 38 statues, however this number was halved due to limitations on space. For more information on the Korean War Veterans Memorial visit the National Park Service website http://www.nps.gov/kwvm/home.htm

the Dmz was built to keep North Korean citizens from escaping to South Korea

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South Korea, the US, France, Great Britain, Columbia, Turkey, Greece, Canada, Australia, Belgium, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Ethiopia, Luxembourg, the Philippines, South Africa, Thailand. Other UN countries sent medical units.

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In My opinion, MacArthur wanted to Nuke China to save the lives it would have taken to beat back what was then left at the time farmers, and untrained men. We beat their best in the push back north the second time, and their casualties were much greater than ours. The kill rate was 10/1, The real fear was igniting another World War. Russia would probably have gotten involved because they would not have wanted American soldiers on their doorstep. With a true 100 American push we could have defeated China at that time provided Russia not get involved. I think we made a mistake in not pushing back to the north of Korea and setting up a defensive line and thus leaving a free united Korea. Truman was in to much of a hurry to just negotiate a cease fire for the appetite of the American people right after WWII was for an end to war. MacArthur had the right Idea and had we followed his Leadership excluding the nukes the world would be better off today for it.

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The truce that stopped the fighting in the Korean War left North Korea and South Korea divided at the 38th parallel. The North remains communist controlled, while the South practices a western-inspired form of democracy. The war has never officially ended

korea is pea size compared to the us.

Yes. It is a typical communist country, in that the people can vote, but, they can only vote for one person-a communist. The leader of North Korea does not allow a free press, or allow people to have much control over their lives. North Koreans have been known to starve to death, or flee to China, to escape tyranny in North Korea. North Korea recently torpedoed and sunk a South Korean ship, which almost equal to declaring war on it's southern neighbor. North Korea is certainly run by a dictator and one who's mental abilities have been the subject of much negative speculation.

Cold War is when US and USSR is fighting on the economic functions (capitalism, communism). Korean War started because USSR wanted to spread Communism to the Pacific. Why? USSR was a group of Communist countries and same with US (they had NATO, USSR had something called Warsaw Union) so the more members, the bigger they become. When China and Northern Korea (North didn't exist yet officially) attacked south, US and UN stopped them from conquering the peninsula. So the Korean War is started, and is, officially, going (although the armistice was signed, it didn't end)

The benefits the south gets from the USA from 1950 till now is one of the main reason why thy more likely to ruin there neighbors gifts Russia ideally would gain from this war seeing that it supplies the north with all types of weapons.

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Lots of different countries because korea was a small country so other countries that were bigger then Korea took controlled of Korea

We learned how not to conduct a war for one. I'm not talking about the war itself, but rather the war back home. Allowing journalists to see everything and make reports caused extremely inflammatory stories about the war and while I don't think we ever belonged there in the first place, I've heard enough veterans say that news reports were not as bad as the reality to start believing that they're may be something to that. Don't let journalists in to see too much action because they are businessmen. They have to sell stories and stories that sell are ones that go for people's emotions, especially the negative ones. Don't believe me, then watch how the 24-news networks will cover perhaps isolated murders and kidnappings as though they were nation-wide epidemics, or the SARS virus which rarely killed anybody was treated like the second Black Death. The media loves to create a frenzy because then more people watch the news and they make more money. However, the journalists' presence also caused us to ask why ANY of our boys were dying for this war which raised the question, "Why are we fighting over there?" Thus exposing the fundamental flaw of the entire war. It wasn't the troops on the ground, journalists, protesters back home, but rather I think it was just we had no clear set of reasons for why this country was so important to us, what we would do after the war, and what we would get out of all this fighting. So in this respect having journalists is important because if there are those hazy areas in our logic, those types of questions are going to get asked. While no one can prove this conclusively one way or the other, it is possible that Vietnam may have actually helped stop the spread of communism in Southeast Asia. This is not a theory I believe in, but then again, who knows? We got to start developing the helicoptor as an effective tool of war, both offensively with gunships like the Cobra, as a transport mechanism like the Huey, and just as an all-around workhorse. Cannons were reattached to jet aircraft. The M-16 got its baptism of fire. We learned humility. Even though we were and are the strongest nation on earth, everyone knows you can't win all the time, so thank God our first loss was in a place that didn't matter to us that much. Think if we had learned defeat during WWII or the Civil War! Now that we have tasted it, we can learn from it and go forward into future conflicts a little wiser. We learned how NOT to treat our veterans. I think largely because of how Vietnam veterans were discarded and mishandled after they came home, Americans have relearned the importance of treating their veterans with respect and honor, which most of them have earned (growing up in the Army, I've met some of the very few who are not deserving of honor or praise, but most are great people. Best storytellers on the planet!). *We learned how not to conduct a war for one. I'm not talking about the war itself, but rather the war back home. Well, maybe we learned, but we must have forgotten. Generals on the ground in Afganistan and Iraq are being second-guessed by politicians who are responding to poll numbers which reflect the information (or disinformation) distributed by the media.