KOREAN WAR

Korean War

Korean War

Introduction

This period of U.S. history from the end of the Civil War (1861-1865), which opposed the Northern industrial states in the Confederate States, including the issues of slavery at the end of the First World War. It is marked in particular by the reconstruction , which ends with the Compromise of 1877 and the withdrawal of northern troops from Southern states. The period of U.S. history which took place between the end of the war and the beginning of the twentieth century is sometimes called "golden period" (in English Gilded Age), and was marked by long prosperity in many areas (economy, industrialization). However, this period extended until the Second World War, that was also characterized by a gradual withdrawal of rights acquired by African Americans at the end of the war in the southern states, which reached its climax during the arrest of Plessy in 1896, which endorsed racial segregation in public transportation. The Great Depression also affected America, which comes out shortly before the First World War.

Thesis statement

The paper includes the detail history about the Korean War and its historical prospective. There is consensus among historians that the events associated with the Civil War is the greatest crisis for the country, but each of them defines the various episodes, as turning points.

Discussion

Korean War

The Korean War took place from 1950 to 1953 between forces of the North Korean communist, supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union, and those of South Korea under Western influence, backed by the United Nations mainly the U.S. According to communist historiography South Korea made a first strike.

The Partition of the Peninsula

At the Yalta Conference, Stalin had promised to Roosevelt that the USSR would enter into war against Japan three months after Germany surrendered, at the same time, the Allies had agreed that in Korea the Japanese forces stationed in northern 38th Parallel would go to the Soviets, and those who occupied the South Americans.

The Soviets intervened in the north a few days after the declaration of war on Japan on 9 August 1945. For their part, the Americans landed, on 8 September, two days after the announcement in Seoul for a short-lived Democratic Republic "by the Left-dominated Communist who had been active in resisting the Japanese occupation

Origins of Strategic Conflict

However, major challenges to explain the overwhelming support given by the USSR and its new ally, China became communist in 1949: in particular, the fact that South Korea was in a strategic position in the conflict for the balance eh Far East, where the presence of the French was threatened by war (against peace. Indochina, where, with very weak Japan (the United States signed the Treaty of San Francisco in 1951 to end its occupation), South Korea was considered as one bulwark against communist expansion,

This war took place at the time of the so-called Cold War, within the framework of sustained fighting the communist Soviet Union and the United States of ideology ...