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North Korea Invades South Korea
North Korea comes to South Korea and tries to take over and make the South Communistic. -
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Korean War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War Before the war started Korea used to be a united country. But then the North broke away from the South because on wanted a Democracy when one wanted Communism. That led to the breakout of the Korean war. -
Battle of Inchon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War When the US tried to lang troops on North Korean Territory and landed at Incheon. There about 50 thousand troops landed and about 100 were defending against the 50. There the South won with the help of many American and other countries troops. -
China enters fighting
Chinese push the UN forces back and make it harder for the forces of South Korea to push forward. -
Truman Relieves McArthur
McArthur was warned many times to stop insubordination. but didn't listen and was relieved by Truman. -
The 38th Parallel
Around this time America was getting close to using Atomic weapons. But they knew if they would've done that it might have become a nuclear battle. So they stayed on the ground using troops and became stalemate for two years. -
Peace Talk
In August of 1951 the Korean war was almost to the end when all sides of the war started to talk about peace talk. Then it didn't work which led to more fighting to come. -
Eisenhower Elected
http://www.shmoop.com/korean-war/timeline.html President Eisenhower was elected to help with the Korean war and was one of the war hero's of WW11. -
Korean War Armistice
This is when North Korea and China came together and made a deal that said the UN peace action would end. Ending the Korean war. -
The Korea's stay divided
During this time North and South Korea were talking about joining together again but they couldn't come up with an agreement so they stay split to this very day.
