Korea- The Forgtton War

• When the war began the United States appealed to the United Nations to stop communist growth into South Korea.
• Most of the soilders, and those who did most of the fighting were Americans soilders.
• Commander of all the UN forces was Douglas MacArthur.
• Northern Korea moved the southern koreans back almost to the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula, Pusan.
• MacArthur had a plan and it was to land troops in Inchon, a port city behind the North Korean Lines.
• When China realized how close the UN was coming to them, they thought this threated their security and since they didn't pay attention when asked to keep away, China entered this war.
• Because of the Chinese attack in the Yalu River the UN was dirven back to South Korea.
• MacArthur wanted to blockade china, but truman said no because he thought by doing so the Soviet Union would get involved.
• Macarthur began to criticise the military in public by writing to newspapers and such. Because of these actions Truman fired him
• When the next president election in 1952 started, the republican canidate was Dwight D. Eisenhower, and his feelings about the war were very open, he didn't like it and if he won he would go striaght to Korea and end the conflict as soon as possable.