why/how were these events important to the Korean War?

Question

Bloody & Heartbreak Ridge

Stalin's Death

MacArthur getting fired

US invasion of China

Inchon Invasion

Answer 1

Korean War

Throughout most of its history, Korea has been invaded, influenced, and fought over by its larger neighbors. Korea's closed-door policy, adopted to ward off foreign encroachment, earned it the name of "Hermit Kingdom." Japanese, Chinese, and Russian competition in Northeast Asia led to armed conflict, and Japan defeated its two competitors and established dominance in Korea, formally annexing it in 1910. Japan remained firmly in control until the end of World War II. Near the end of the war, the April 1945 Yalta Conference agreed to establish a four-power trusteeship for Korea. With the unexpected early surrender of Japan, the United States proposed-and the Soviet Union agreed-that Japanese troops surrender to US forces south of the 38th parallel and to Soviet forces north of that line.

In 1948 two different governments were inaugurated on the Korean Peninsula, fixing the South-North division of Korea. The Republic of Korea (South Korea) was born south of the 38th parallel and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) north of it. North Korea, having obtained a massive amount of weapons from the Soviet Union and the Chinese Communist Party, launched guerrilla and other subversive operations against the South, preparing in haste to invade the South in a bid to communize the entire peninsula.

The communists built a formidable political and military structure in North Korea under the aegis of the Soviet command. They had created a regional Five-Province Administrative Bureau in October 1945, which was reorganized into the North Korean Provisional People's Committee in February 1946 and shed the "Provisional" component of its name twelve months later. The communists also expanded and consolidated their party's strength by merging all of the left-wing groups into the North Korean Workers' Party in August 1946. Beginning in 1946, the armed forces also were organized and reinforced. Between 1946 and 1949, large numbers of North Korean youths--at least 10,000--were taken to the Soviet Union for military training. A draft was instituted, and in 1949 two divisions--40,000 troops--of the former Korean Volunteer Army in China, who had trained under the Chinese communists, and had participated in the Chinese civil war (1945-49), returned to North Korea.

The US military government tried to put together a moderate coalition to provide itself with a broad base of political support.But the July 1947 assassination of a prominent leftist in the coalition and the decision of a coalition moderate to enter into unification talks with the north led to the demise of the coalition efforts.


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Answer 2

Stalin's death allowed the peace process to move forward. He had actively and adamantly resisted any peace talks.

MacArthur getting fired was the end of an historic general's career, and a sign that past successes would not be protection if you pushed things too far. MacArthur had been pushing for an invasion of China, or using Nukes on China. Neither of which happened.

Inchon was a classic flanking attack carried out by way of an amphibious assault. It was executed brilliantly against a port town, a target which had been considered unassailable previously. This led to the US/UN forces being able to launch a new offensive and take back the territory they had lost.