Specifically Korea, the North wanted to unite all of Korea to be communists while the South did not. Since the two ideologies were different, North Korea thought the only solution was to invade the South.(doc 5) The Soviet Union and other communist countries joined North Korea and helped to win over the country. The United Nations also joined in to help South Korea. The Korean war ended up being a stalemate and was divided along the 38th parallel.(doc 6) Korea wasn't the only nation in Asia to fight. There was also Vietnam. North Vietnam thought they should be communist as South Vietnam did not. The United States also helped out the Southern Vietnamese to stop the spread of communism. But, the United States stepped down and Vietnam fell to communism. As this was all happening India followed a policy of nonalignment which meant they were neutral.(doc…
He wanted to invade China in order to restore a democratic political system. He was the leader of the Army of the UN. He ambushed Chinese from behind while some troops were already struggling from the front. Then the Koreans caught between them.…
Backed by the Soviet Union and China, Kim Il Sung started the Korean War that took place 1950-1953. He wanted to unite North and South Korea under Communism.…
North Korea To bring all of Korea together. The UN interfered with the capturing. The K. war happened General MacArthur To defeat North Korean army North Korea was stronger than they initially thought. UN troops fought north korea.…
While the two world powers never fought face to face, their ideological differences caused proxy wars, in which both countries would support opposing sides of a war effort as a way of competition. The Korean War was the first substantial battle between the two countries in the name of containment. Before the 1950’s invasion by the North Korean Army, Korea had been divided into two sectors; the communist North, supported by the Soviet Union, and the anti communist South, supported by the United States (Foner 715). The Truman administration sent American troops into Korea in an attempt to militarily suppress the northern invasion. Through the help of the United Nations, fifteen other countries also committed resources to the Southern Korean side.…
When it came to China deciding to support North Korea, they made this choice because of the shared hatred for the enemy of North Korea (Yufan, Zhihai 94). In addition, this decision by China, also stems back to 1949 when Chairman Mao delivered a speech exclaiming how he is denouncing the United States as an imperialistic power seeking to dominate China, and with that he said China would now lean toward the side of the Soviet Union (Yufan, Zhihai 97). The Chinese Communist party did not want any more possibilities of United States ideals spreading into China, thus the reason for the Chinese leaning toward the Soviets. With that said, the Soviets joining North Korea is what made the Chinese join North Korea as well. In the aid of North Korea,…
The Vietnam war was fought because America thought communism was threatening to expand all over Asia. The United States knew they couldn’t fight the Soviet Union because a full on war would be devastating due to the nuclear capabilities of both sides. The Vietnam war was North Vietnam versus South Vietnam with the United States as South Vietnam’s allies. It was the longest war the United States has ever taken a part.…
The objective of the United States entering the war was to stop communism from spreading to South Vietnam. They were not successful in stopping communism because they lost the war. Them losing the war was factors of many things like not receiving support from U.S citizens.…
The Korean War was the result of tensions between North and South Korea after World War II. North Korea launched a surprise attack against an unprepared South Korea, pushing South Korean and U.S. forces to the southernmost tip of the Korean Peninsula. The U.S. launched a counterattack that started with amphibious landings at Wolmi-do Island and Inchon. The battle of Inchon was a significant factor in the Korean War because it allowed U.S. and South Korean forces to push North Korea back past the 38th Parallel.…
Assess the reasons for the communist victory in the 2nd Indochina War The communist victory in the second Indochina war was highly due to the failures of conventional warfare from the US and ARVN such as the bombing of the Ho Chi Minh Trail and search and destroy missions which did little to bring down the Viet Cong. The Tet Offensive also contributed by being a turning point for the war, leading to a decreasing American support for the war as it caused media chaos. The end of US aid through the Paris Agreement and Vietnamization policy impacted the South negatively leaving a poorly lead army and a crumbling economy and the already corrupted South Government highly contributed to the communist victory as well. ARVN and the US’s strategies and tactics of conventional warfare such as search and destroy missions and bombs were very ineffective.…
From the 1950s to the mid-1970s, the Vietnam War was a conflict between North Vietnam and South Vietnam over political ideologies and imperialist beliefs. The North was communist and the South with the aid of America was anti-communist. While some may argue the US won because of pride, more infantry, more powerful weapons, I believe North Vietnam won because they came out in a better position. North Vietnam won the war because they reunited as one country, their tactics were better, and released communist ideas across the country. Even though North Vietnam took a loss in solider deaths, they still took their country and it became theirs.…
In an attempt to overthrow Democratic South Korea, Communist North Korea invaded South Korea in the hopes of turning it communist. President Truman feared the spread of communism and responded to the invasion by sending American…
The first war was the Korean War, which occurred from 1950 to 1953. “When World War ended, Korea became a divided nation” (Modern World History 2012). During that time, Korea was divided into two parts. The non-communists in the south, and the Communists in…
The Korean War was a US war. This is because ninety percent of fighting men in the war were provided from the US and South Korea. Also, Macarthur was prevented from communicating with the United Nations because of President Truman. Disagreeably, the US dispatched the 7th Fleet to the Taiwan Straits, but this displays that the US acted on its own against those nations that disagreed.…
The Korean War was one of the biggest conflicts that was attributed to the Cold War. It was caused by North Korea invading South Korea. The U.N. and USA went in to assist South Korea while China and the Soviet Union went in to assist North Korea. In 1950, combat erupted as the North Korean army, the Russian army and Chinese army entered South Korea. Later, the U.N. tried to stop hostilities by calling a ceasefire, but it was denied and the U.S.A and U.N. had to go into South Korea to fight the North Koreans and their allies. Eventually, in 1953 both sides signed a peace treaty and the Korean War ended.…