The Domino Effect Of The Korean War

Korean War

The Korean War was another episode in the Cold War starting June 25, 1950 and ending only three years later on June 27, 1953. The fighting began when North Korea crossed the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet Union’s Republic of Korea to the north and pro-Western Republic of Korea to the South. A main influence on this invasion of the south was the Soviet Union. They had a large interest in sending a message to the United Nations, and more specifically The United States. One month into the war American troops joined on behalf of South Korea. According to American officials it was a war against international communism. The Americans had an instilled fear called the “domino effect”, that communism would eventually spread
The first of these was Kim Sung II. Kim Sung was the dictatorial leader of North Korea from the end of the second world war through 1994, when he passed away. Having become a Communist, he led the first government in the North-The People’s Democratic Republic of Korea. In the early years of the Cold War, Kim sought to reunify all of Korea under his own Communist leadership. For a small amount of time the north was hopeful to spread their communist regime and gain the trust of the people, but the more popular Syngman Rhee, the leader of the south won the support of the general population. This took away the hope they had to unify the country without fighting. Dr. Syngman Rhee was an American-educated Korean exile who returned to his country to become the first president of South Korea in 1948. After North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel in
On November 14, 1947 the United Nations passed a resolution that the Soviet Union had a strong reaction to. The United Nations wanted Korea to become one independent nation again. They gave the people a vote. The United Nations general assembly states “The General Assembly Resolves that elected representatives of the Korean people be invited to take part in the consideration of the question; also, Further resolves that in order to facilitate and expedite such participation and to observe that the Korean representatives are in fact duly elected by the Korean people and not mere appointees by military authorities in Korea, there be forthwith established a United Nations Temporary Commission on Korea, to be present in Korea, with right to travel, observe and consult throughout Korea. News of these documents traveled through the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union did not want to give up the power that the had in