The Korean War: The Causes Of The Korean War

Before 1945 Korea was controlled by Japan. After the second World War, USA and Soviet Union split Korea in t two. This cause the divide in the country and another divide in the ideals. USA was preaching capitalism and democracy. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, was looking to spread communism. North Korea invaded South Korea to try to form a stable, united Korea as it was before the end of the Second World War. USA acted decisively to defend the South to stop the threat of communism and to continue their policy of containment. They did not want communism to spread.

Communism has been a global problem for decades, and has caused a wide array of issues. The Soviet Union and China were the main Communist threats post-World War II. The Soviets were the biggest threat, without their influence, China would not have become a Communist nation. North Korea was supported by the Soviet Union after the Japanese lost World War II. They adopted a Communist government called the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and was ruled under Kim Il-sung. North Korea invaded South Korea, an authoritarian country, which drew involvement from the United States, and in general, the United Nations. US involvement in Korea is debatebly because of the rising threat of global Communism and the attempt of North Korea taking South Korea.

President Truman’s desire to stop communism in the Korean Peninsula resulted in the decision to join the Korean War. The catalyst for the United States’ involvement in the Korean War is mostly due to the fear of the spread of communism, which was caused by North Korea’s encroachment and intimidation of South Korea, as well as the desire to silence the Soviet Union. Other factors attributed to US involvement such as the Truman Doctrine, the Domino Theory, and McCarthyism.

The Korean war began on June 25th 1950 immediately upon North Korea’s attempt to invade South Korea. Soon after in June 27th 1950, the United nations intervened to stop this from happening, this had both a positive and negative aspect to it. The war began as a civil war between both the North and South of Korea, but it soon became international. This war proved how the United States would do anything to prevent the spread of communism. Not only was it the first war of the Cold war to have machinery which made it all the more deadlier but it was also the first war in which whites and African Americans fought side by side.

The Korea War was a civil war fought between North and South Korea over political views and the type of government that would run the country. North Korea, who was an ally of the Soviets wanted a communist government whereas South Korea, an ally of the U.S., wanted a democratic, capitalist government. These different ideals started the Korean war, although the start of the war is highly controversial among the two side. However when looking at other country’s involvement, it can definitely be seen that some were not justified. The U.N.’s involvement of the Korean War was justified however the U.S.’s involvement was not because the objective of U.N. fit, their involvement escalated the Cold War, and it was unnecessary in terms of force and overpowerment.

Shortly after World War II, North Korea’s central government was renamed the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Conflicts began to rise when the North and South’s political systems contradicted each others. These differences led to warfare between these two countries. During the mid to late 1900's, the North Koreans under the Kim family, went to war with South Korea inflicting many casualties while economically isolating their country internationally creating economic struggles for their own people.

This started a war known as the Korean war , the Korean war was a war between the Communist north and the democratic south. In this war there were battles fought and at one point in the war in the south was getting very close to winning the war and then the Chinese stepped in and help the north out by giving them troops to fight back the south and by the end of the war it had ended in a stalemate leaving the north and the south there own two countries. Another war that was fought between these two types of government was the Vietnam war this war was very gruesome and left a bad image on the United states the people were unhappy about getting involved. The war was fought between the communist north and democratic south with some troops from the United States and was lost because the United states did not have very high moral and did not have much support from home. These wars where the product of a battle of government battles and these government differences also led into differences in

The conflict in Korea began in 1949, shortly four years after the 38th parallel had been established, North Korea’s leader Kim Il-Sung was eager to invade South Korea. In order to do so he needed the support of his strongest

The Korean War is sometimes called the “Forgotten War”. It is a war often overlooked. However, it is important to look over every war and not to forget one, especially one so recent. For example, by looking over how the Korean War started, one could tell that it was cause not by weapons, but by politics. The Cold War got the better of the superpowers involved. Those superpowers began trying to make countries use their government. Korea became that rope in the tug-of-war game once again, and it has affected them to this day. The U.S. and the Soviet Union made war almost inevitable by creating two sides with completely different ideologies. During the war both the U.S. and the Soviet Union underestimated the opposing side, leading to a war that ended in a stalemate. It would leave the U.S. on high alert and would leave a bitter distrust between China and the Soviet Union. China was also affected, suffering great losses from the war. In the end, the Korean War was just a minor part of the Cold War. However, it was much more for Korea. Korea is still divided today, and that division does not look to end soon. The Korean war was both a global and local conflict, with millions dying for what ended in a draw. Hopefully this ‘forgotten war’ will be remembered, so a conflict like this won’t happen

World War II was no doubt a long, brutal war that caused many tensions around the globe. When this war was over, it caused a variety of consequences for all of the nations involved, one of these being Korea. The tensions between Russian and Japanese control over Korea literally ripped the country in half. Why did Korea split into North and South and why did this escalate into the Korean War? This question can be answered by looking back at what happened during the war within the country and also focusing on the control of the 2 powers that had a majority of the control of the North and South regions of the peninsula.

Causes of the Korean War After the USSR installed a Communist government in North Korea in September 1948, that government promoted and supported an insurgency in South Korea in an attempt to bring down the recognized government and gain jurisdiction over the entire Korean peninsula. Not quite two years later, after the insurgency showed signs of failing, the northern government undertook a direct attack, sending the North Korea People's Army south across the 38th parallel before daylight on Sunday, June 25, 1950. The invasion, in a narrow sense, marked the beginning of a civil war between peoples of a divided country. In a larger sense, the cold war between the Great Power blocs had erupted in open hostilities.

The allies of the South Koreans also made a big impact. North Korea could have easily have defeated the South Koreans if the United States and the United Nations hadn’t stepped in to help. The United Nations had a group of countries supporting them that gave troops and military supplies to the South Koreans. The United States gave their large Naval force and Air Force to support them. At the beginning of the war the United Nations was losing because they had very little numbers of troops and not a very good tank compared to the Russians T-34 tank which could not be

How did North Korea become the cruel country that scorches both surrounding and distant nations with its sternly severe socialist flame? Subjugated by Japan in 1910, North Korea was mercilessly enslaved for thirty-five years. Due to Japan's defeat in World War II in 1945, the United States occupied the southern region of the Korean Peninsula while Soviet troops seized the north. As a result communism spread like weeds. Sadly, North Korea's government, military, and economy were all by shaped by the leftist views suppressed on them. The root of the problem was Kim Il-Sung, the first premier of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. At the urging of the United States, the United Nations General Assembly established elections, introduced a constitution, and formed the Republic of Korea in South Korea.

On a positive note it boosted the economy of Japan and U. S and ¨legitimized the United Nations and led to further expansions of military power¨ (Effects of the Korean War). The Korean War also had a downfall as well. Korea as a whole had suffered heavy damage. ¨Perhaps as many as 4 million Koreans died throughout the peninsula, two-thirds of them civilians. This compares, for example, with the 2.3 million Japanese who died in WWII. China lost up to 1 million soldiers, and the US suffered 36,934 dead and 103,284 wounded. Other UN nations suffered 3322 dead and 11,949 wounded¨ ( Effects of Korean

The Korean War was both an internal conflict for the Korean people as while as a conflict that impacted the rest of the world; especially affecting Eastern Asia. This war (occurring from June 25th 1950 - July 27th 1953) was caused by the differing political opinions of the northern and southern regions of Korea and was what eventually caused the split of the once unified country of Korea into North Korea and South Korea respectively. Both sides of the country believed that the country as a whole should be treated and ruled differently, and the once invisible split in the country became an actual boundary when things couldn’t be settled between the two. Doesn’t help that each faction (half) believed believed that they were “the true” rulers of Korea and that they would be the ones to make the law. Imagine if the once political split between the north and southern parts of America during the civil war caused us to become two separate countries as we fought over the leadership of the entire country. This is basically what was happening in the Koreas. This war basically never ended as both of the Koreas still have many conflicts today and nothing was really ever resolved as they didn’t have never become unified again.