Cold War Dbq

After World War 2, everyone was happy, unfortunately this happiness didn’t last long. The Soviet Union and United States had many differences. One of those many being, the Soviets believing in Communism and the United States believing in Capitalism. This little disagreement sparked one of the deadliest wars in U.S. history. The U.S. put the Soviets under a policy known as containment. This meant the Soviets were going to be watched and kept under control. This was to insure Communism wouldn’t spread fast or anywhere else. The strongest example of containment is the Cuban missile crisis, while North Korea vs. South Korea is the weakest example.

On June 25, 1950, communist North Korea invaded the United States ally South Korea. The United States and the United Nation forces headed to South Korea to help defend but are pushed back and practically pushed off the peninsula. General Douglas MacArthur stages a risky but successful counterattack at the port of Inchon. This counterattack helps South Korea push back North Korean forces back to the Yalu River. This causes communist China to enter the war. The war dragged on for many years and finally ended in 1953 with the help of the United States and the United

As the Cold War continued on, communist North Korea unexpectedly invaded its Southern counterpart on June 25, 1950, which was encouraged by the Soviet Union. By September 14, 1950, the United States, alongside the United Nations, helped defend South Korea from further attacks (Document C). Consequently, this led to the U.S. and the United Nations forces nearly being pushed off of the Korean peninsula. However, soon after this the U.S. decide to take more immediate action with General MacArthur on July 25. General MacArthur devised a plan to counterattack North Korea at port Inchon, though it was risky it was successful in the end, due to it pushing North Korea back towards the Yalu River near China. Finally, on July 27, 1953, the ongoing war was over (Document C). The Korean War is a good example of containment because NOT

Efforts to unify Korea resulted in more than 100,000 deaths due to guerilla warfare. In April 1950, North Korean leader Kim II Sung persuaded Joseph Stalin to back an invasion of South Korea, convincing Stalin that the United States would not intervene. Stalin agreed to provide arms, equipment, and advisors to the North Koreans (“Korean War”). Kim II Sung did not stop there as he also persuaded the newly communist Chinese to aid the North Koreans. The Korean War, (June 25,1950 – July 27, 1953), occurred when over 75,000 North Korean Army invaded the land across of the 38th parallel. American president Harry Truman was feeling heat after “letting China fall”, so Truman ordered American troops into action on South July, the United Sates entered the conflict on South Korea’s behalf. The next three years would be the darkest and most horrific in Korean history. As seen in American reporter Bill Shinn’s account, “the North Koreans were gruesome…during the occupation of South Korea, they killed over 165,000 civilians. Also, I witnessed a South Korean mass execution of civilians suspected of having helped the communists. Korea was a mess” (“The Forgotten War Remembered: Korea, 1950-1953). This shows the depths of the horror that was perpetrated in Korea for three years.

This “war” was not one of conflict, rather being an arms race with the Soviets but with the danger of another war looming. Since there was no conflict, it was called a “cold” war, however, this changed when the North Koreans invaded the 38th Parallel into South Korea. This all occurred in June of 1950, however, the North Koreans had the backing of both the Chinese and the Soviets before the invasion thanks to the Sino-Soviet Treaty, signed in February of 1950. The Soviets trained the North Korean military and provided it with many post-war supplies, while the South Koreans were only provided with light weapons and little to no training. The US did this to prevent the South Korean military from invading the Communist North, which would prove to be counter-productive once the North did

The Cold War was not a war in the traditional sense. It was a political, philosophical, and economic conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR). It spanned four decades and influenced the culture of virtually every nation in the world. The Cold War turned "hot" from time to time, as the major players applied military might to protect their interests abroad and control events in developing countries. But for the most part, the era was marked by tough rhetoric and high tension, not open combat.

At the mid-point of the century that had already seen two appallingly destructive and costly World wars, just as the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States broke due to their ideological differences after World War II, in the midst of the Cold War was the Korean War. The Korean War began on June 25, 1950 when the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, a border between South and North Korea, to attack South Korea. The size of the war quickly grew as it began to involve countries like China, Soviet Union, and the United States. With nothing to show rather than early back-and-forth across the 38th parallel between the two sides, the Korean War marked its end in July 1953 with about 5 million losses of soldiers and innocent civilians during the war. Korean peninsula still divided today, one must understand how Korean War marks a significant turning point in the context of international order and relations, and the American foreign policies. During the 1950s, the Korean War was tremendously significant as it marked the first concrete war against communism as well as revealing inconsistencies in American foreign policy.

The United States, as part of a UN police action, sent troops to help South Korea fight off the communist troops of North Korea. Under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, and with aid from Australia, Great Britain, and Turkey, the UN forces were of great assistance in the fight against not only North Korea, but also troops from the Soviet Union and China. The Korean War lasted from 1950-1953.

During the Cold War there were also lots of proxy wars (wars instigated by a major power that does not itself become involved). The war in Korea was one of them. It began on June 25th, 1950. 75,000 soldiers from North Korea invaded South Korea. North Korea was being backed by the Soviet Union. That invasion became the first military action in the Cold War. In July, America’s troops entered the war to fight on South Korea’s side against the North Korean forces. The American officials saw this as a war against international Communism. As the favour of the war swayed back and forth the American government tried desperately some sort of armistice with the North Koreans.

On January 1st, 1947 the U.S. entered the Cold War. The Cold War was a period of intense tension between the U.S. and its NATO allies, and the Soviet Union and its communist allies. Almost 70 years later, the Cold War still impacts the world today. The topic with which I wish to discuss today is the Cold War and North Korea and the relevance it has with the modern world.

The US, being allies with South Korea, quickly responded with nearly a million military personnel. The subsequent conflict known as, “The Korean War,” divided North and South Korea by the 38th parallel, although it wasn’t actually a declared war. The Korean War consisted of a number of brutal fights between the United States backed by the military of South Korea, and the North Koreans. Just two months into the war, the South Koreans were on the brink of defeat, until the Battle of Inchon. The United Nations military forces, most of which were American military, entered the fight and pushed the North Korean forces back. However, the American soldiers noticed that they weren’t just fighting the North Koreans. They discovered when they pushed the North Korean forces back to the Yalu River, Chinese soldiers entered the conflict. Josef Stalin gave permission to Kim il Sung to invade South Korea so long as Mao Zedong, the dictator of China, would be there to support the North Korean military if they STOLAN 3 needed it. These Chinese and Korean soldiers were also

During the times of the Cold War many countries around the world have were impacted but it was the so called “Forgotten war” that impacted Korea forever. The war forced ways of government and controlled the Korean nation splitting up the countries along the 39th parallel leaving the north controlled by the Soviet and the south by the USA. The border created by the fight is still there and heavily militarized to this day. It revolutionized the way both north and south korea’s way of government views leading to what they have become today. The Korean War was a major historical event for Korean affecting their culture and government systems. The Korean war has affected both Korea and the United States in positive and negative ways changing the lives of many still to this day. This essay will explain and expand on the cause of the korean war and how it has shaped both the U.S and Korean and the effect it has today.

On June 25 1950, the North side invaded the South side for the purpose of unification of the whole country. The North had an advantage over the South in terms of military strength due to the powerful support from the Soviets and the People 's Republic of China. In contrast, the South side countervailed by taking the part in the war with United Nations Forces which was composed the United States, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Turkey, Ethiopia, Thai, Philippine, Columbia, Greece, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Luxembourg and South Korea. Afterward, the Chinese People 's Volunteer Army entered the war and the Soviets supported the north side in terms of weapon supply or military training. Korean War is regarded as a war by proxy between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc. This war was the first hot war on the cold war era. The causality of this war was tremendous; South Korea lost 217,000 servicepersons and 1,000,000 civilians. North Korean lost 406,000 military men and 600,000 civilians. China lost 600,000 military and the United States lost 36,516. (Seth 2010) As the total population of Korean peninsula was about thirty million, indeed one of six people was sacrificed in this war.

After reading the Korean War the war was mostly taking over point to point and taking over certain points and holding them but in the end the war the two countries were destroyed and had to build from the ground up. Also most of the battle where taking certain points around the battlefield. The casualties of the war was 140,000 U.S soldiers, 1,312,000 South Korean soldiers, the U.N’s 16,532 and the communist forces (North Korea and China) was estimated about 2 million casualties (Korean War 1). The end of the war split the two countries and still today the two countries still don’t like each other because of this war. The war is truly called “The Forgotten War” because most people to this day don’t even know it existed. But I must put my cap down for all of the people who fought in this imperialistic war. To this day I pounder this question and of the Korean War was an act of imperialism and have finally proved it from history itself and how the war was

The Cold War was fought between the United States of America and the Soviet Union. The war was a battle to be the most powerful country in the world. Although the Cold War was not a violent one it affected many other countries besides the United States and the Soviet Union. Most of the battles were races to get the achieve technology. South Korea was deeply affected by the Cold War; “Letter to General-Lieutenant Hodge on Northern Korea Providing Electricity to Southern Korea” proves that South Korea’s debt to North Korea was directly associated with the Cold War. North Korea was also very much affected by the Cold War; “Soviet Report on Communists in Korea, 1945” validates the fact that the North Korean