Where did the conflict take place? On June 25, 1950, an armed force from the communist north Korean side surprised the south Korean and the small US force station in South Korea setting off the Korean war for the next 3 years. North Korea went straight to the capital city Seoul to attack it. In reaction, the United States responded by acting under the authority of the United Nations. The US pushed a resolution through the U.N security council; for military assistance to South Korea and Russia was not there for this meeting so they couldn't veto the action by the US. With the UN having authorised the resolution the US sprang up to the defence of south Korea, President Harry S. Truman rapidly dispatched the united states air force, navy and land army to engage in the war against north Korea, Fighting a bloody and frustrating war for 3 years.
What was the build-up to this event? The Korean war was built-up by two superpowers. On august the 10 1945 when the US dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan offered to surrender and they had colonised Korea. When Japan left Korea the Soviet went in with its troops and took part of Korea. In 1948 when the soviets installed a communist in government in North Korea the US felt threatened and moved quickly to South Korea to prevent all of the Korea from becoming the Soviet satellite state. Dean Rusk was a Colonel in the US army and he selected the 38th Parallel as the line that would divide the American controlled section(South Korea) and the Soviet controlled section( North Korea). A few months later General Douglas MacArthur from the US military announced that they had to divide Korea into 2 different zones the north which was controlled by USSR and the South was controlled by the US and Stalin accepted that. In 2 years the Korean nationalists formed the Korean People's Republic as an interim of government. The Korean People's Republic was communist and over time they sent their army across to the South passing the 38th parallel. The invasion marked the beginning of the cold war and
Who were the groups involved in the conflict? During the Korean war, they were a lot of people involved after the US got the U.N security council to authorise military help to South Korea but they were also other countries that helped North Korea. For example some of the countries that helped South Korea were United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Belgium, South Africa. Countries from all over the world helped south Korea, must do it to stay on the good side of the US and the United nations. However, North Korea was also helped by People's Republic of China, Soviet Union. More than three million of these were communists from North Korea, China and Russia. Opposing them were around three million from South Korea and from 21 United Nations (UN) nations including Australia. It didn't start off with six million people it started off with only 200 000 North Koreans and 100 000 South Korean's, with the arrival of the UN and Chinese army the numbers of soldiers on both sides increased by a lot. By a year North Korea had 1 200 000 and South Korea had 1 100 000. The Soviet Union's commitment was constantly little and included medicinal units from the Soviets' allies Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania.
What were the perspectives of each respective group involved? The reason the Korean war started is because it was just another episode of the cold war between the US and Russia. On the surface the Korean war was meant to look like a war between South Korea and North Korea but it was really a war between 2 superpowers with nuclear weapons, so they used the Korean war as a front to fight each other without actually starting ‘world wall 3’.
Firstly the USA were involved in the Korean War for many reasons, the Domino theory likely being an essential reason. Eastern Europe was by all account, not the only place to crumple under communist ideology during the cold war. In the far East, China also became communist (in 1949) which created serious concern for the US seeing as China has the biggest population on the planet. Like dominoes, Truman (US President at the time of the Korean War) believed that if Korea somehow managed to fall under Stalin's (USSR leader at the time) rule, then Japan would be next. Japan being a major trading partner to the US they didn't want to lose that so that made US president Truman respond militarily to secure American trade. Secondly, Truman realised the US was in a competition for world domination with the USSR so by supporting South Korea. America was able to fight communism without attacking Russia. South Korea did not expect N.Korea to attack, North Korea was to blame and south Korea didn’t have the strength to defend themselves against the invaders until the US were able to help them The USSR needed to spread communism in Korea. They trusted that communism. They figured out how to get ahold of North Korea and the US needed to prevent communism from spreading they rather have capitalism which is what they wanted, so they got ahold of South Korea. The US have been providing and supporting the general population in South Korea. At the point when the US withdrew they thought the South Korea could stand their ground however that was not the situation. Kim il Sung (pioneer of North Korea) exploited that and invade South Korea.
What Happened During world war 2 Korea was divided into a communist which was the northern half and an American-occupied southern half but they had divided them at the 38th parallel. The Korean War (1950-1953) started when the North Korean Communist armed force crossed the 38th Parallel and attacked non-Communist South Korea. As Kim Il-sung's North Korean armed force, equipped with Soviet tanks, rapidly overran South Korea, the United States came to South Korea's guide. General Douglas MacArthur, who had been administering the post-WWII control of Japan, ordered the US powers which now started to hold off the North Koreans at Pusan, at the southernmost tip of Korea. In spite of the fact that Korea was not deliberately crucial to the United States, the political environment in this phase of the Cold War was with the end goal that policymakers did not have any desire to seem "delicate on Communism." Nominally, the US interceded as a major aspect of a "police activity" keep running by a UN (United Nations) global peacekeeping power; in reality, the UN was basically being controlled by US and NATO against Communist interests.
What were the end results? Following three years of a bloody and disappointing war, the United States, the People's Republic of China, North Korea, and South Korea consent to a truce, conveying the Korean War to an end. The peace negotiation finished America's first experiment regarding the Cold War idea of "limited war. A desire to prevent the spread of communism is the thing that brought about the United States to give aid to South Korea. Taking after the war, North Korea remained solidly under communist control. However there was a considerable measure of Human losses before the end of the war, It is estimated that the United States had more than 40,000 casualties during the Korean War, while South Korea had 400,000 casualties. North Korean estimates for war casualties are around 400,000 too. This likewise created a division in families, Many civilians fled their homes in North Korea toward the beginning of the war, leaving everything that they claimed behind, and at times they also left other relatives. In the 21st century, communications and travel between North and South Korea is still firmly limited. South and North Korea are now considered different countries.
What were the long term consequence on Korea after the cold war? Korea is still isolated into two. Both sides keep up armed forces along the border where there is an uneasy peace in some cases it's interrupted by exchange of guns being discharged. Korea stays in a condition of war, with no permanent peace arrangement existing. In spite of the fact that a truce exists, occasional violence generally blamed on North Korea by the west, still happens. After the war finished, Australians stayed in Korea for a long time as military observers. Australia gained political and security benefits, the most critical being the signing of the ANZUS Treaty with the United States and New Zealand. The war-scarred both North and South Korea. Both countries endured huge impacts on their economies and infrastructure, as a consequence of bombings, mounted gun strikes. In the aftermath of the war, South Korea was able to modernise and industrialise with the assistance of the United States. This two countries were behind the war and many more other events that happened during the cold war and this happened because they didn't want to start world war 3.