Korean War

Ten things people should know about the Korean War:

• The Korean War started in 1950 when North Korean communists crossed the 38th parallel and invaded the more democratic South Korea.
• Angered by this communist invasion, the US and UN backed South Korea and pushed North Korean forces back almost to the northern border, the Yalu River.
• China, seeing the UN forces so close, felt threatened and backed NK.
• China's retaliation pushed back the UN forces past the 38th
• The war dragged on and became unpopular.
• American General Douglas MacArthur was the main general of the war.
• MacArthur wanted to bomb and invade China, but president Truman declines.
• Truman began a series of peace talks with the Chinese
• In the middle of the war (1952) a new president, Dwight D Eisenhower, was elected.
• The war became a stalemate, and an armistice was signed, setting a DMZ at about the 38th parallel to seperate N and S Korea.