The Korean War
The Korean War was in all reality one of America's most significant conflicts. As time goes on, though, people seem to dismiss it, ans now we call it the "forgotten war." That is the reason that I decided to write a report on it. Not many of my teachers have ever tought me about the Korean War is so often forgotten is that from the very start of the war, the coflict presented confusing and contradictory messages. This war was the result of the division of Jores into North and South. Up until the end of World War II, Japan controlled Korea. In 1945, the United tates made a decision that we would occupy the southern half of Korea. The Unite States did this out of fear, because tue USSR joined the fight against Japan in North Korea, and we feared that they would take control of the entire Korean Peninsula. This attempt of occupation would form a communist stronghold farther souththan anything that we had ever seen, enabling the spread of Russian doctrine to be quicker and more devistating to the concept of democracy. The communists had built a formidable political and military structure in North Korea under the Soviet co
Two years later, as the war came to an end, the Air Force Secretary, Thomas K. Finletter declared, "Korea was a unique, never-to-be-repeated diversion from the true course of strategic air power. Nuclear weaponry, for the next quarter century, dominated U.S. military strategy. By the time the cease-fire agreement was signed, millions of soldiers and civilians had already perished. Korea remained divided for decades since the subject to the possibility of a new war at any time. The United States feared that the rest of the world would look upon our intervention in Korea as appeasement of communist aggression. The United States was determined that South Korea should not and would not be overwhelmed and asked the United Nations Secutity Council to intervene. By a slim margin the NSC ordered the direct support of South Korea. mmand. The North Korean forces numberd between 150,000 and 200,000 troops by June 1950. On the other side of the conflict was South Korea with less than 10,000 men. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The leader of Northern Korea was Kim Il Sung. He recieved a great deal of su
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Approximate Word count = 775
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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