Governments Involved In The Korean War

Why did different governments get involved? What were they fighting for?

The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea, which involved a lot of International support on both sides. Where the United Nations force led by the United Sates of America fought for the South, and China and the Soviet Union fought for the North. What started out as a civil war between the North and South soon became a global contest between the superpowers of America and the Soviet Union being the first battle of the Cold War. In June 1950 Kim II Sung started its invasion of the thirty eight parallel with great military support from the Soviet Union, the thirty eights parallel was a division of Korea after World War 2 agreed by the United States and the
General McArthur, was over command of American and United Nation forces, after a heavy debate in the United States of wether to cross the 38th parallel the United States decided to push the North Koreans int the North. When this happened North Korean representatives travelled to Beijing and asked the Chinese for help. China not wanting to interfere the Korean war, world wide announced that if the United States of America crossed the 38th Parallel they would intervene. Confident People in the Us department didn’t believe the threat of the Chinese and ordered to continue pushing the North Koreans into the North towards the Yalu River. What America didn’t know was that on the other side of the Yalu River there were four armies and three artillery divisions waiting for attack. After a meeting in Moscow with the Chinese and North Koreans they told them that they wouldn't be able to directly join the war because of the UN security Resolution 84 they were part of. But the Soviets offered the Chinese sufficient military equipment. Now the americans were aware of the military appearance of the Chinese behind the Yalu River. The americans thought that because of the war in Korea the military appearance from china on the Yalu river was to protect their hydroelectric generating plants. On October 15,1950 McArthur and Truman
The Korean war began when the communist North Korea started invading the South with the hope to concur the South and make the whole of Korea communist. At the United Nations meeting, excluding the Soviet Union, the United Nations agreed on sending military defences to the democratic South Korea. The presence of the strong military based United States turned the war around and pushed the North Korean forces back to the North and towards the Chinese border. Being a communist country in 1949 the Peoples Republic of China saw the communism in North Korea in danger and send hundred of thousands of troops of the Yalu River towards the Americans and North Koreans, which were halting around Pyongyang. Eventually it turned out to be a loss for the Chinese and the UN and South Korean forces which were fighting with no end in sight. In 1952, republican Dwight D. Eisenhower criticised the actions of Truman in the Korean war and was elected President making him responsible for the war in Korea. In July 1951 peace talks had begun, Eisenhower who thrived for peace, had been in South Korea to look at the situation decided to publicly announce that the United States might use their Nuclear weapons to end the War in Korea. He ordered the nationalist Taiwan to begin air strikes on the mainland of china, and