Cold War Events/ Korean War

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  • Official U.S. Entrance of the Korean War

    Official U.S. Entrance of the Korean War
  • NK invades Republic of South Korea without warning

    NK invades Republic of South Korea without warning
    The Battle of the Pusan Perimeter started the whole thing
    The North Korean People's Army invaded without warning
    The U.N. condemns North Korea and The U.S. enters as a result
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    Korean War

  • B-26 aircraft of the 13th and 8th Bomb Squadron suffer casualties at Han

    B-26 aircraft of the 13th and 8th Bomb Squadron suffer casualties at Han
  • 34th Regiment crushed by NK-4 at Chonan

    34th Regiment crushed by NK-4 at Chonan
    The U.S. Military's 34th Regiment suffers a depressing defeat
  • Battle of Bloody Ridge

    Battle of Bloody Ridge
    U.N. membered victory with over 17,000 casualties
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    Battle of Bloody Ridge

    U.N. Membered Victory with over 17,000 casualties
  • Battle of Heartbreak Ridge

    Battle of Heartbreak Ridge
  • Riots in Koje-do prison camp

    Riots in Koje-do prison camp
    Communist North Korea infiltrates Koje-Do in an attempt to free some of their soldiers
  • General Dodd captured by Koje-do POWs.

    General Dodd, warden at Koje-do is captured by the prisoners
  • Koje-do riots end

    General Haydon Boatner replaces General Colson at Koje-do and ends rioting. General Mark Clark assumes FECOM from General Ridgway.
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    Pamnunjom

    Marines capture hill 122 east of Panmunjom, and hold it with a reinforced company against repeated battalion-level CCF attacks. They won it a proud nickname, Bunker Hill
  • Pamnunjom

    Pamnunjom
    Marines capture hill 122 east of Panmunjom, and hold it with a reinforced company against repeated battalion-level CCF attacks. They won it a proud nickname, Bunker Hill
  • NK Premier Kim Il Sung and CCF Peng Teh-huai agree to POW exchange

    NK Premier Kim Il Sung and CCF Peng Teh-huai agree to POW exchange
    Both sides agree to exchange their prisoners
  • Cease-fire signed.

    Cease-fire signed.
    At Kaesong on the 27th of July. The official Armistice signing had occurred.
    Leaving both countries at a stand still on the war in Korea.
    North and South Divisions had split the country until it no longer can cease its fires within anymore