Korea is a small peninsula, located at the crossroads of Japan, China, and Russia. It has long been coveted by these three nations, as a strategic point on the Asian continent, which gives its controller access to the boarders of the other two countries. After WWII, Korea was split between the Soviet Union and American, the USSR controlling the north, and the US controlling the south. The plan at the end of the war was to eventually have both sides relinquish control to a single Korean government, but the Cold War began, and the nation remained split between communism and democracy.

The United Nations had been formed immediately after WWII in the hopes of providing a method for countries to work out their differences peacefully, and try to avoid another world war. The UN agreed to help sponsor free national elections in Korea. But the Soviet Union would have nothing to do with the UN, so they held their own communist elections while the UN held election

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On July 10, 1951, the peace process slowly began. They would last until mid-November, and saw some of the bloodiest action of the entire war, along with a prisoner revolt that took the lives of several UN guards. The final agreement's stipulations were that all prisoners of war were to be returned, and that the boarder between North and South Korea would be re-drawn roughly at the 38th parallel, with North Korea loosing a few hundred square miles of land that it previously owned.

Unfortunately, almost all of these troops were stationed in Europe, and in North America, and could not reach Korea for at least a week. There were however, two divisions of American troops stationed in Japan, but they had never seen combat, and were poorly trained. Nevertheless, they shipped out immediately, and miraculously held the lines until reinforcements could arrive from the other nations.

Unknown to McArthur, the Chinese had deployed hundreds of thousands of troops along the boarder, and even in North Korea itself. On November 3, 1950 the Chinese government issued a final warning that they believed the UN intention was to invade China, and that they will protect their homeland. By that time, the Chinese had approximately half a million troops along the boarder, anxiously awaiting the arrival of the UN forces. On November 25, the Chinese offensive commenced all along the Yalu River. Soon, the longest retreat in American history would begin, as they fled the advancing communist army. During this retreat, the losses to the Chinese, who had little respect for human life, were enormous, as they were attacked all day by US Navy planes, protecting the retreating United Nations and South Korean forces. The UN troops eventually reached the coast where they along with ninety thousand Korean refugees were loaded into ships, and brought back behind the 38th parallel.

On July 27, 1953, more than two years after it had begun,

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