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i need help with the korean war...i need all the information on it ASAP plz help me out

2006-12-07 04:47:25 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel Asia Pacific Korea

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here is an excerpt on the korea web.



Korean War Veterans Memorial




The Korean War




Amercans fought in the Korean War to stop the military invasion of South Korea by the North Korean communists. Before 1950 most people in the United States had never heard of Korea. After the North Korean army crossed the 38th Parallel in to South Korea, on June 25, 1950, many people suddenly became aware of this faraway Asian peninsula. The United Nations Security Council voted to send troops to counter the invasion. Fifteen nations sent combat troops and additional five sent medical support. Ninety percent of the non-Korean United Nations troops wee from the United States and the overall command of the troops was in the hands of American generals.




Combat was extremely fierce during the three years of war. Almost a million Chinese communist troops joined the North Koreans five months after the war started. The Soviet Union supported Chinese and North Koreans with money and supplies. Severe weather conditions and the rugged terrain magnified the difficulties encountered by the UN forces. At the war's conclusion more than 33,600 US military personnel were listed as killed in action and over 2,700 had died in captivity. In addition, approximately 8.000 Americans were listed missing in action and 103,000 wounded. Combat ceased following the armistice on July 27,953 which created the boundary between the two Koreas.

2006-12-07 12:55:59 · answer #1 · answered by swzon2 1 · 0 0

The country was divided after the Japanese surrendered the second world war. Japan was forced to give up all it colonies .The area North was Solviet occupied area. The area south was occupied by allied armies. The North naturally adopted
a Stalinist style Communist.

After the allied armies pulled out, the North led by Kim Sun Ill attacked the south and were able to push to southern armies to the Pusan perimeter.

Then the United Nations intervened sending many countries including United States Britain Canada Turkey and several other countries to defeat the Communist army.

One of the decisive battles was an Amphibious landing in the port city of Inchion. This bold move turned the tide for the war.
This battle was led by General Mac Auther.

During this bloody campaign Seoul Changed hands many times.
General Mac Auther pushed the communist troops up to the Chinese border and almost unified the country. Then the Red Chinese army interviened. General Mac Arther suggested using nuclear weapons against China and was soon dismissed.

The war ended in 1953 with an Armistance. There has never been a formal peace treaty signed. The country is still in a state of civil war. Despite the obvious danger Korea remains a popular
destination for ESL teachers

2006-12-07 11:22:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

one million. North Korea attacked South Korea, the place there have been thousands human beings troops already deployed. 2. The struggling with ranged all the way down and up the completed Korean Peninsula, from the southern tip, around Pusan to the northern border alongside the Yalu River, and everywhere in between. 3.. The enemies (from the US attitude) have been the North Koreans, the chinese language and (in a roundabout way) the Soviet Union. The Allies have been the South Koreans, the US, super Britain, and an entire host of alternative international places, all struggling with below the UN banner. there have been Turks and Canadians and Ethiopians and Greeks and Italians and many others who fought as UN forces against the North Koreans and chinese language. 4. US and Allied forces customarily ate "C" rations interior the sphere. those have been cans of food precisely like the US and Allied forces had eaten throughout international conflict 2. there became into, of course, significant version via distinctive nationalities. The chinese language and North Korean forces customarily ate rice with small quantities of fish and vegetables. 5. returned, the Allied forces fairly lots wore properly-known Olive Drab US protection rigidity uniforms precisely like those worn by using the later years of WWII. The Chinerse and Koreans wore uniforms partly based upon Soviet WWII uniforms, yet with the addition of a padded jacket which helped to maintain them heat, and became into additionally, because it became out, marginally able to lowering the effect of shrapnel and lighter high quality bullts like pistol ammunition and the ammunition fired by using M-one million Carbines. 6. interior the top, an prolonged see-observed combat got here to an end as a draw, with the border between North and South Korea re-widespread on the same spot it have been in the previous the conflict. there became into no formal peace treaty signed, of course, yet for all intents and purposes, the armistice or quit fireplace that ended lively hjostilities additionally ended the conflict, and the UN withdrew maximum of its forces, and the chinese language additionally withdrew.

2016-10-17 22:52:53 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

It was in Korea

2006-12-07 07:31:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

OK sure we can help you out

2006-12-07 04:49:08 · answer #5 · answered by god knows and sees else Yahoo 6 · 1 0

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