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The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. It began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased after an armistice on 27 July 1953.
- List of Korean Battles
Battle of Busan (1592), a naval battle of the Seven Year...
- Aftermath of The Korean War
The aftermath of the Korean War set the tone for Cold War...
- Korean Conflict
Tensions erupted into the Korean War, which lasted from 1950...
- United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known...
- Battle of Chosin Reservoir
The Battle of Chosin Reservoir, also known as the Chosin...
- Medical Support
During the Korean War, six countries—Sweden, India, Denmark,...
- Korean Armistice Agreement
The Korean Armistice Agreement (Korean: 한국정전협정 / 조선정전협정;...
- Battle of Pusan Perimeter
The Battle of the Pusan Perimeter (Korean: 부산 교두보 전투), known...
- Ch'ongch'on River
The Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River (Chinese: 清川江战役; pinyin:...
- Bodo League Massacre
The Bodo League massacre (Korean: 보도연맹 학살; Hanja: 保導聯盟虐殺)...
- List of Korean Battles
- North vs. South Korea
- The Korean War and The Cold War
- 'No Substitute For Victory'
- The Korean War Reaches A Stalemate
- Korean War Casualties
“If the best minds in the world had set out to find us the worst possible location in the world to fight this damnable war,” U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson (1893-1971) once said, “the unanimous choice would have been Korea.” The peninsula had landed in America’s lap almost by accident. Since the beginning of the 20th century, Korea had been a...
Even so, the North Korean invasion came as an alarming surprise to American officials. As far as they were concerned, this was not simply a border dispute between two unstable dictatorships on the other side of the globe. Instead, many feared it was the first step in a communistcampaign to take over the world. For this reason, nonintervention was n...
This was something that President Truman and his advisers decidedly did not want: They were sure that such a war would lead to Soviet aggression in Europe, the deployment of atomic weapons and millions of senseless deaths. To General MacArthur, however, anything short of this wider war represented “appeasement,” an unacceptable knuckling under to t...
In July 1951, President Truman and his new military commanders started peace talks at Panmunjom. Still, the fighting continued along the 38th parallel as negotiations stalled. Both sides were willing to accept a ceasefire that maintained the 38th parallel boundary, but they could not agree on whether prisoners of war should be forcibly “repatriated...
The Korean War was relatively short but exceptionally bloody. Nearly 5 million people died. More than half of these–about 10 percent of Korea’s prewar population–were civilians. (This rate of civilian casualties was higher than World War II’s and the Vietnam War’s.) Almost 40,000 Americans died in action in Korea, and more than 100,000 were wounded...
United States in the Korean War. Soldiers from the US 2nd Infantry Division in action near the Ch'ongch'on River, 20 November 1950. The military history of the United States during the Korean War began after the defeat of Japan by the Allied Powers in World War II.
The Korean War ( Korean: 한국전쟁, Russian: Корейская Война, Chinese: 朝鲜战争) took place between 17June 1950 and 27 July 1953. It was a civil war fought between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (or North Korea).
- 25 June 1950-27 July 1953
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The Korean War was a conflict (1950–53) between North Korea, aided by China, and South Korea, aided by the UN with the U.S. as the principal participant. At least 2.5 million people lost their lives in the fighting, which ended in July 1953 with Korea still divided into two hostile states separated by the 38th parallel.
The Korean War started on 25 June 1950 and ended on 27 July 1953, after the signing of an armistice agreeing that the country would remain divided. At the end of the Second World War, Korea – which had formerly been occupied by the Japanese – was divided along the 38th parallel.
