The 38th parallel sperated North and South Korea, but wasnt intended as a permanent boundary. This divided Korea's resources with industry in the North and agriculture in the South. Creating two new nations, one was communist and the other was nationalist. The South, headed by Syngman Rhee, surrendered to the United States while the communists formed the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, led by Kim Il Sung. North Korea attacked first, on June 25, 1950. Being on the South's side, President Truman takes military action. He orders naval and air support. On June 27, 1950 the Americans call on other nations to help the republic of South Korea, the UN Security adopts this idea. The only problem was that the Soviet Union was boycotting the UN because of their refusal to recognize communist China. In the end, the 16 nations sent 520,000 troops to assist the South; 90% were US and were put under the command of General Douglas MacArthur.
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3 comments:
I like your descriptions of North and South Korea. They are a lot of help when you start explaining the Korean War as a whole.
I like how you clearly explained the differences between North and South Korea, but I dislike that you didn’t say anything about the outcome of the war.
I like how you described both North and South Korea. Also all of your details, and you had a lot of dates which i liked as well.
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