Why Did King Arthur Enter The Korean War

The Korean War was between North Korea, a communist state, and South Korea. It was the first major strife of the Cold War; the Soviet Union supported North Korea and the United States backed South Korea. The German and Italian tyrants, Hitler and Mussolini, were defeated by 1945 after which United States and Soviet Union turned to fighting Japan later in the year. After General MacArthur forced the Japanese to surrender, the USSR and the United States acquired control of the adjacent Korean Peninsula, which had previously been under Japanese seizure starting at the turn of the twentieth century. With the decision to divide Korea at the 38th parallel, the Soviet Union overtook control in the north and the United States in the south. The North
China therefore cautioned the United States not to broach the Chinese/North Korean border at the Yalu River; however, MacArthur ignored the threat and he pursued the North Koreans farther up the peninsula. After construing this move as a clear offensive declaration of war, the Chinese dispatched hundreds of thousands of soldiers across the Yalu to meet MacArthur’s men in North Korea. Overpowered and outnumbered, MacArthur and his assemblage retreated back to the safer bounds behind the Yalu River. At an impasse once again at the 38th parallel, MacArthur insisted to Truman that dropping nuclear bombs on mainland China was the next move. MacArthur’s presumption was that this would not only allow his soldiers to gain command of the entire Korean Peninsula but would also oust the Communist regime based in Beijing. Both Truman and U.S. military officials, were very aware they lacked the all the resources required to fight a war with China, contain the Soviet Union, defend Western Europe, hold Korea and occupy Japan at the same time. They also wanted to keep the war controlled to what they could handle and knew that the deployment of nuclear weapons would unavoidably bring the Soviet Union into what could quickly evolve into World