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 * It's known as "The Forgotten War", but all Americans should learn about it and remember it ... and that's where you can help. You have been asked to develop a "Korea ** 9 **3 2 1" webpage to cover the basic information everyone should know about the Korean War - all on one page. Your page should include ...**


 * 9** - facts about the causes, events, and impact of the Korean War (look at my examples below)
 * 3** - photos that help tell the story of the war, with descriptive captions
 * 2** - maps that help to explain the war.
 * 1** - quote that is essential to understanding the war, with authors and context

When Japan lost the war against America it also lost possession of Korea. Korea was then split into two with Soviet Russia occuping the north(the communist-side) and America, the south(the anti-communist side).

North Koreans force their way into Sout Korea which give Truman an oppurtunity to test out his containment policy. He beseeches UN members to loan troops to their cause which soon becomes the UN force led by former World War hero, General MacArthur.

After much back and forth battling General MacArthur decided, with the permission of the UN and President Truman, that they should push North Korean troops back as far as they can into North Korea. They were able to get them to fall back all the way tothe yalu river, the boundry between Korea and China. China wasn't happy.

China felt that the U.S was "a threat to China's security" by pushing North Korea towards China. Despite Chinas warnig to the the UN forces continued to push forward. On November 25, 1950 a wave of communist chinese troops attacked the UN across the river and, with the aid of North Korea, pushed the UN forces back to south Korea.

General MacArthur thought that it would be a good idea to bomb and blockade China. Truman refused the idea saying that it would bring in Russia and start yet another world war. MacArthur questioned Truman's judgment and releiled it to the public. For this insolence MacArthur was fired and sent home.

The war with Korea started becoming more and more unpopular with just about everybody. For this reason Truman considered talking about truce with North Korea. These talks will go on to last two years (wow) and through the next election.

In the next election Truman decides that he will not run again. This leaves his position to either Demodcratic nominee Adlai Stevenson or Republican nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower (or Ike). Eisenhower wins by a landslide because of his promise to a speedy end to the conflict in Korea.

Eisenhower carried through on his promise by agreeing to compromise the end of the war with North Korea. Although he states that he is ready to use nuclear weapons the war ends in July of 1953. Korea was left in almost the exact same condition as it was when the conflict started.

Although communism had succesfully been contained politicians questioned the true "success" of the war. The indesicive war frustrated many Americans which came to be used by Joseph McCarthy and other politicians.



//"In my generation, this was not the first occasion when the strong had attacked the weak….Communism was acting in Korea just as Hitler, Mussolini, and the Japanese had acted ten, fifteen, and twenty years earlier. I felt certain that if South Korea was allowed to fall, Communist leaders would be emboldened to override nations closer to our own shores."// — President Harry Truman states that if he had allowed South Korea to fall it would open a doorway for communism. He also says that this situation is no diffrent than that of WWII.