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North Korea Invades
On this day, North Korea crossed the 38th parallel and invaded South Korea. -
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Korean War
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Responding
Truman adked the UN to frespond to stoping the invasion. The UN force was led by Douglas MacAurthor and was about 80% american -
Defense of Pusan Perimeter
After a series of costly delaying actions during July, the U.S. Eighth Army withdrew on Aug. 1 into a final defensive line around the key port city of Pusan. -
Controlling
By August, North Korea with new soviet tanks, controlled almost all of South Korea. -
Firing Macarther
MacArthur began to complain publicly that the politicians in Washington were holding him back. Eventually Truman fires MacArthur. -
Declaring a Cease-Fire
Peace talks began in July 1951 with little progress. 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhaur was elected president and journeyed to Korea to get the talks moving. July 1953, an agreement was reached to set the border between north and South Korea near the 38th parallel. -
Battle for Outpost Old Baldy
The 2nd Infantry Division loses the outpost to a Chinese attack that demonstrates the enemy’s greatly expanded artillery force, mounts several unsuccessful counterattacks, and then finally retakes the outpost. -
Battle 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 negotiations resume
South and North Koreans still desire to defeat each other and unify the peninsula, the UN and the PRC wish to end what has become a bloody and expensive war whose objective, the status quo ante bellum, is for them not worth the cost of continuing. -
Armistice signed at Panmunjom
Both sides then withdraw slightly to create a demilitarized zone between the two Korean regimes.
