Military Actions in the Korean War

The Korean War was the first military action of the cold war. By June 1950, the war broke out and South Korea only had a small army of about 100,000 with limited resources and weapons (U.S. Enters 1). South Korea’s forces could barely control rebellious attacks around borders, and other places. In 1949 U.S. withdrew all forces except about 500 who stayed in South Korea to help train soldiers for the war. Because the soldiers were no longer needed.

During the training over their soldiers they were unexpectedly attacked by North Korea, which they were grossly unprepared for (U.S. Enters 1). The U.S.S.R. came to an agreement with North Korea; they gave the North mass amounts of weapons, supplies, and even tanks. The Soviet Union also had North Korean troops sent to their country in order to help train them for war. When the war began both the North and the South knew that the North was the bigger and stronger army (U.S. Enters 1). When the war was starting President Harry S. Truman ordered U.S. naval and air support to help push back North Korea’s communist aggression (U.S. Enters 2). He later sent ground forces from japan into Korea; And General Douglas Macarthur was selected commander of all the U.N. forces in Korea. When, the forces came to the aid of the south many questioned if they were prepared if one of the largest communist powers were to come into the fight. Many thought the Chinese were going to attack the U.N. forces in Korea which they did. (U.S. Enters 2) The U.N. Invaded South Korea, to defend the South from the North’s communist’s army, and Truman’s administration seized an opportunity to protect a non-communist government, and the Invasion of Inchon, in this essay it will depict the struggles each nation went...

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...led in the war and more than 200,000 North Korean civilians were also killed.

The U.N. Invaded South Korea, to defend the South from the North’s communist’s army, and Truman’s administration were given an opportunity to protect a non-communist government (U.S. Enters 2). The Invasion of Inchon, it depicts the struggles each nation went through, and the actions taken after the invasion of Korea.

The Korean War was a deadly and dramatic time for all of the nations involved in the war, North Korea attacked the South. The U.S. helped by protecting a non-communist government from a cruel and evil communist government that wanted to overthrow them and gain control of their land. Throughout this dark, bloody, and soulless time many people died from the United States, the Koreas and many different European and Asian nations that came to both sides to help fight in the war.