Korean War

The Korean war happened because of what is called containment. After WWII The U.S. and the Soviet Union were world powers that didn'd like each other at all. Communism, the government that the Soviets had was spreading throughtout Asia and to other areas. The U.S. did not want the Soviets to get too many allies (most of the countries who became communists allied the soviots in the Warsaw Pact) so containment was the answer, that is they contained the Soviets where they were stopping there spread. This was all part of the cold war which really had little actual battles. But in Korea, N. Korea was Communist and S. Korea was not. The U.S. wanted to stop this so they help S. Korea resist N. Korean aggression. N. Korea atted South Korea nearly destroying them, but the United Nations join south Korea. Most of the U.N. forces were Americans but it is techniquely the U.N. who fought in that war. The fighting went back and forth like a sew saw on who was winning when the fighting was over, this war lasting for a couple years, the new border between the countries is not much different then where it started. The battle seemed to have no purpose but it did stop the comunists from spreading so it was a victory for the U.N.

stop the spread of communism

To prevent the communist North Korean take over of the free nation of South Korea.

To prevent South Korea from becoming Communist

To prevent North Korea from taking South Korea

Korea was a hot war. Cold war means no gunfire. No deaths. A hot war is a shooting war...deaths. Korea was part of the cold war. One "hot" battle of a cold war. It started when the Communist North Koreans INVADED the free South Korean Republic in 1950. Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union urged the North Koreans on in return for the war material he gave them: T-34 Russian Tanks, MiG-15 Jet Fighter Aircraft, and tons of trucks, small arms and ammunition. The war ended when he died in 1953. (By Armistice).

Depends on what time period you are asking about. Currently, it is the M16 rifle, or the M4 carbine version. During the late 1950s-60s, it was the M14. During WW II it was the M1 Garand and M1 Carbine. During WW I it was the 1903 Springfield (or the Enfield version) Before that, the 30-40 Krag, and before that the Trapdoor Springfield in 45-70.

The US provided the majority of the UN military forces which drove the North Koreans out of South Korea and still stand guard along the border. Also, the head of the UN force on the ground was an American general, Douglas MacArthur.

They never did. Instead they signed an armistice in1953. Theoretically they are still at war.

@ er Actually, the south did NOT take part in the signing of the armistice of 1953. It was only the other nations involved the in war including North Korea. So "they" did not sign.. Yes, theoretically the two Koreas are still at war.

I think the two Koreas met separately later (199?) and signed some sort of ceasefire, but I cannot confirm this..

The same as it is today. The Korean War did not end; it is still ongoing. There is only a "truce"; an Armistice is a truce, and was signed in July of 1953; that Armistice is all that is keeping the peace in Korea at the moment.

Korea!... mostly around the 38th parallel, which was where the country was split. That was after the North had invaded the South... and then the south took the North before fighting in the middle.

The Korean War was limited to the Korean peninsula. the Chinese enter the war and russia too were helping north Korea. U.S. feared that expanding the war would lead to a bigger war, possibly the dreaded third world war.

All s above are false. The Korean War was fought in Japan between Japan and Korea. Korea split because of political leaders insulted each other and the country split. It is called the Korean War because afterwards, The political leaders had a massive Yo Mama fight and shot each other with blowguns.

The US was in Korea as a member of the United Nations and many other members were allies including the British Commonwealth and Turkey.

"South Korea" answer for A+

Between those two options, the answer is COMMUNIST. However, North Korea has officially claimed that it is no longer Communist and is strictly "Juche". Regardless, the regime maintains a Dictatorial Apparatus that appears to be much more similar to Communist regimes than Democratic regimes.

Invading North Korea brought in Red China. During the Vietnam War, we chose not to invade North Vietnam.

It also taught them not to involve in local disputes in the future.

it also taght UN not to use nuclear weopons

Todays ROK (Republic of South Korea) still exists today. A communist failure to conquer ROK.

Contrast with Vietnam War: RVN (Republic of South Vietnam) no longer exists. A communist victory, they conquered RVN.

War was lost...does not compute.

1. Communists were stopped at the 38th parallel.

2. The Republic of South Korea produces fine automobiles and electronic equipment for the global free market. If the war had been lost...there would be NO ROK today.

Define...war was lost?

Former General of the ROK Army, Park Chung Hee (1917-1979).

Despite how it may look sometimes, international diplomacy is a bit more complicated than kindergarten recess. It's not really possible to reduce the status of two countries down to "friends" and think that says it all.

Yes she had son with her first husband John Casper Hays or William Hays depending on who you believe the real Mary Hays. Also it says that she was pregnant sometime within the war (started in 1775) but gave birth before her famous battle of Monmouth in June 1778. It is beleived that she only had one child with her first husband although could be possible for them to have two children

The United Nations forces in Korea consisted of troops from the Republic of Korea, the US, the UK, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, South Africa, Thailand and Turkey. Medical contingents were sent by Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Italy and India. This totals 22 nations.

The Government North Korea has today is a Dictatorship.

Kim Jong-Il rules the country with mighty power.

Douglas MacArthur was relieved of his command in the pacific by president Harry Truman because of his failures in the first two of the three phases of the Korean war, the first in trying to hold the communists at the 38th paralel (the border between North and South Korea), and then in trying to push the communist Chinese forces out of Korea, which he thought he had nearly done when he push them to the China- North Korean border, but in reality, the communists were withdrawing and ammasing their forces on the border, and when the UN troops were spread out thinly across all of Korea, they struck, pushing the UN forces all the way back to the 38th paralel and a little beyond.

Mcarthur also wanted to attack China (as they were sending troops to assist the North Koreans in return for their assistance during the Chinese civil war which took place during World War 2, which the communists won), using Chinese nationalist troops (the democratic Chinese forces left over from the civil war, which they had lost) to augment UN forces in a full out assault on China, after which he wanted to drop 30 to 50 nuclear bombs along the neck of Manchuria (the section of China that borders Korea), the prupose of which would be to turn the China- North Korea border into an impassable, "radioactive no man's land for sixty years".

This plan was not the reason for Mcarthurs' being removed from his command, though it probably pushed Truman to the decision, as a poll back in America had shown that the majority of the population did not favor an all out war with China.

Also MacArthur ran a ship aground I belive and he argued with Truman about bombing china directly and that's when Truman relived his command

He was relieved of his command because he was disregarding his superiors

Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn became the acting President on December 9, 2016 when Parliament voted to impeach President Park Geun-hye. PM Hwang Kyo-ahn will continue to act of President until the impeachment trial is over.

Currently, the leader of South Korea is Park Geun-hye. She became the 11th president of South Korea on February 25, 2013.

Lee Myung-bak was the president of South Korea from from February 25, 2008 to February 25, 2013.

prisoners of war

A non-believer in war is one who is completely against combat between groups. These types of people find war utterly stupid and find no reason to kill others for land, protection, and money. A good example of this are the hippies of the Vietnam War.

"뭐하지?" Mwuh-ha-jee? or "뭐 할까?" Mwuh-hal-kka?

Not sure what you mean when you say "what to do?" Do you mean this as an expression of despair? If this is the case you should say, Od do ka myun cho ah. (What is the best action under these circumstances)

If your saying what shall we do..the above is correct....but, familiar....Don't speak this way to an elder just to a peer.