Korea+9321

  Nine Facts: ~ In September of 1949, the Nationalist government collapsed so communist government took over and that worried the United States. ~ In 1945, Russia took control of the North side of Korea and the United States took control of the South side of Korea. So the north was communist and the south was democratic. ~In 1950, North Korea's army pushes into South Korea. ~Even if the US asked the UN for help, the US did the majority of the fighting, with MacArthur as the leader. ~China, which is now a communist country, notices that the UN forces are going into North Korea, and China thinks it is a threat to their security and so they enter the war. ~ MacArthur asked Truman if he could bomb China, but Truman said no because it would probably start another world war. ~In July of 1951, the US and the Soviet Union agreed to have truce talks, and a cease fire happened 1953. ~North and South Korea were pretty much in the same spot that they were at the beginning of the war. ~ A Wisconsin senator caused Americans to fear Communism.

Three Photos

 MacArthur in North Korea  A Sign saying that you are now crossing the 38th parallel

<---Senator Mccarthy giving a speech.

 Korean War Maps:

Historical War Quote:

//"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