Why did the Korean war occur?

Question

so im doing a history day project for school and i need more information on why there was a korean war. please include why it started as well as why it lasted for so many years.

Answer 1

Try this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War#Western_reaction

Answer 2

The Korean war was a war between foreign interests, Stalinism versus Capitalism, leftover from the aftermath of WW2.

At the end of the pacific part of WW2 the Americans were attacking Japan from the south while the Soviets were attacking the Japanese in Manchuria (northeast China). The Soviets then moved down the Korean peninsula which was also occupied by Japan. The Japanese had brutally occupied Korea since 1911 and they were firmly entrenched.

By the time the Americans forced the Japanese to surrender, the Soviets were only roughly half way down the peninsula. So basically the Soviets took control of the northern half and the
Americans took control of the southern half. The Korean war was more of a war between American interests and Communist Russian and Chinese interests than a real civil war.

You can play whatever semantic word games you want and many do ("police action" aw c'mon who are you trying to fool) it was a nasty war as all wars are and the even sadder part is that it never officially ended and it could erupt again at any minute.

Answer 3

The Korean War, occurred between June 25, 1950 and a ceasefire on July 27, 1953.

This was in truth not a war (Congress never declared war) it was a police action. Thanks to the Truman and the UN nothing was ever settled and here we sit today in stalemate.