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KOREAN WAR 1950-1953 - Coggle Diagram
KOREAN WAR 1950-1953
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China's and USA's role, involvement and significance in Korean War
China's role, involvement and significance
China saw North Korea as a
buffer zone to protect its borders,
particularly against the U.S. presence
in South Korea.
After the outbreak of the war in June 1950, North Korea's leader Kim Il-sung and the Soviet Union’s Stalin urged China to intervene, but Mao was initially hesitant.
When U.N. forces, led by the U.S., moved close to China’s border, China felt threatened.
In October 1950, China sent around 300,000 soldiers to help North Korea.
Chinese forces, led by General Peng Dehuai, launched a massive counteroffensive in late 1950 that drove U.N. forces back south, recapturing Pyongyang and pushing back below the 38th parallel.
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USA's role, involvement and significance
When Korea was freed of Japanese control the south was controlled by American forces and the south by Soviet fores. This causes the division of the country.
The War breaks out in 1950, The US fears the spread of communism
The United Nations approved a UN army made up of mainly american soldiers that is sent to Korea to fight the communist forces
Truman never delared war through the Congress and rather worked via the UN military group, masked as a "taskforce" protecting the world from the spread of communism.
The threat of communism spreading made Truman act even as the United States had not fully recovered from the Second World War and the damages it had gathered then.
The US involvement was a clear message to the Soviet Union and the newly communist China, that the US would not allow any further spread of communism and that they would choose to fight agains communist uprisings.
By mid-December of 1950, the US was crafting terms for a peace to end the Korean War.
Peace negotiations started in June 1951 with a military armistice commission with US army officers and the Koreaan leaders.
The actual Korean Armistice Agreement was signed by William K. Harrison and Mark W. Clark, who were both US army officials but represented the United Nations Command as a third party of the armistice.
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