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The Start
Youtube.comBritannicaThe United States and Soviet Union agreed to divide Korea into two zones at the 38th parallel. The plan was to hold elections after the war to reunify Korea. As American-Soviet relations grew worse, however, two separate governments emerged in Korea, a Communist one in the north and an anti-Communist one in the south. -
Joseph Stalin
Youtube.comPolytechnicThere was great tension between the two governments. With the approval of Joseph Stalin North Korea invaded South Korea on june 25, 1950. Harry Truman, with the support of the U.N, sent troops to repel the attack. This was the start of the korean war. -
Harry S. Truman
History President Harry S. Truman deploys the 7th Fleet to waters off Taiwan to prevent the spread of the conflict in Korea to other Far East waters. -
U.S Troops
NJ Gov.1,684,478 U.S. troops participate in the defense of the Pusan Perimeter, including the U.S. Army's 1st Cavalry Division, 2nd, 24th, and 25th Infantry Divisions, and the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade -
X Corps
Youtube.comArmyX Corps amphibious assault at Inchon, Seoul’s port city. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, commander-in-chief of Far East Command and commander-in-chief of United Nations Command, plans to liberate Seoul and crush the NKPA between X Corps and Eighth Army begins its breakout from the Pusan Perimeter. -
UN Forces
HistoryUN forces (mostly Americans) marched northward across the 38th parallel with the aim of unifying Korea. The Chinese, greatly alarmed sent hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops into North Korea and pushed UN forces back across the 38th parallel. -
Eight Army Seizes Pyongyang
ArmyEighth Army seizes Pyongyang, capital of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, after UN forces shift from the defense of South Korea to the destruction of the North Korean regime. The NKPA can mount only very limited and generally ineffective opposition. Meanwhile, X Corps has been withdrawn from Seoul to land in northeastern Korea. -
Far East Airforce
YouTubeKoreanWar.comWar's first airborne operation. Seventy-one C-119s and 40 C-47s of the Far East Air Force's (FEAF) Combat Cargo Command drop 2,860 paratroopers of the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team (RCT) at Sukch'on and Sunch'on north of Pyongyang. Only one trooper killed and 36 injured in jump. Paratroopers, in association with ground forces driving north, kill or capture about 6,000 North Koreans during this operation. -
Chinese People's Liberation Army
History.comTwo army groups of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) attack and defeat outnumbered UN forces in North Korea, inflicting heavy casualties. The People's Republic of China (PRC), after warning the UN, intervenes to prevent the destruction of the North Korean regime and the establishment of an American-allied Korea on its border. -
Armistice
Lawcolumbia.comArmistice negotiations begin as both the US and the PRC decide that the costs are too high to unify the peninsula under their Korean ally, and they instead settle for a continuation of a Korea divided between two regimes. -
Americans Attack
History.comAt this time the war starts settling making it seem like it was going to end a tie. But near spring time the Americans organized an attack making a defensive line which then stopped the Chinese from advancing any further. Then each side attempts to make attacks to bring them closer, but none of them are successful. -
Active Defense
Expertinfantry.comEighth Army assumes the “active defense” as the UN’s objectives in the armistice negotiations, and the growing unpopularity of the war in the United States, rule out major offensives with high casualties. In the active defense, UN forces hold a main line of resistance, protected by fortified outposts, from which units patrol and conduct raids against enemy positions. -
Battle Of The White Horse Mountain
Army.comBattle for White Horse Mountain. The successful defense of this position by the ROKA 9th Division, with the assistance of U.S. artillery and air strikes, against heavy Chinese attacks signals the great improvements the ROKA has made, with the aid of American advisers, in its tactical and technical competence since the first year of the war. -
Armistice
History.comAn armistice was finally signed. The 38th parallel remained, and remains today, the boundary line between North and South Korea.
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POWs
Army.milExchange of POWs. A total of 82,493 Koreans and Chinese POWs are repatriated, as are 13,444 UN POWs (3,746 of which are Americans). 21,839 communist POWs refuse repatriation, as do 347 UN POWs, including 21 Americans.
