1. Containment The United Nations
The Korean War
Containment
The United Nations

2. NORTH KOREA
ON AUGUST 15TH 1948 THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH KOREA WITH ITS CAPITOL IN SEOUL IS FOUNDED
ONE MONTH LATER THE COMMUNIST KOREAN PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC IS FOUNDED WITH ITS CAPITOL IN PYONGYANG
SOUTH KOREA

3. MAO ZEDONG, COMMUNIST LEADER OF CHINA
OCTOBER 1ST 1949 THE COMMUNISTS WIN THE CHINESE CIVIL WAR AND THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA IS ESTABLISHED WITH THE USSR AS ITS MAIN ALLY. IN THE US “LOSING CHINA” BECOMES A POLITICAL ISSUE.
MAO ZEDONG, COMMUNIST LEADER OF CHINA

4. KOREAN WAR: JUNE 1950 TO JULY 1953
THE UN SENT TROOPS TO FIGHT THE NORTH KOREAN FORCES BUT THE BULK OF THE SOLDIERS CAME FROM THE US

5. 38TH PARALLEL DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA
NORTH KOREA
38TH PARALLEL DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA
PICTURE SHOWS NORTH KOREANS INVADING SOUTH KOREA
SOUTH KOREA

6. THE COMMUNIST NORTH KOREANS PUSHED THE SOUTH KOREAN AND UNPREPARED US ARMIES ALL THE WAY TO PUSAN IN THE SOUTH WHERE THEY WERE FINALLY STOPPED BY US FIREPOWER.
RED LINES AND ARROWS SHOW THE COMMUNIST ADVANCE DOWN THE KOREAN PENINSULA

7. GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR WAS PUT IN OVERALL COMMAND OF UNITED NATIONS FORCES
MACARTHUR MADE A BRILLIANT INVASION AT INCHON WHICH THREATENED TO TRAP ALL THE NORTH KOREAN FORCES FIGHTING NEAR THE PUSAN PERIMETER

8. UN TROOPS ADVANCED RAPIDLY AND ENTERED NORTH KOREA IN PURSUIT OF FLEEING ENEMY ARMIES. ON OCTOBER 19, 1950 CHINESE COMMUNISTS TROOPS INVADED NORTH KOREA AND PUSHED THE UN ARMIES BACK SOUTH OF THE 38TH PARALLEL.
PHOTOS OF CHINESE TROOPS ADVANCING INTO KOREA.

9. FORMER GENERAL DWIGHT D
FORMER GENERAL DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT IN NOVEMBER 1952 WITH A PLEDGE TO GO TO KOREA AND END THE WAR.

10. ON JULY 27TH 1953, AFTER THREE YEARS OF FIGHTING, AN ARMISTICE WAS SIGNED ENDING THE KOREAN WAR. KOREA REMAINED DIVIDED AT THE 38TH PARALLEL.
The north remained communist after the war.