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Korean War
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THE WAR BEGINS
North Korea invaded South Korea. -
U.S. ENTERS THE WAR
Trying to help the South defend themselves. -
Truman tries to prevent war with the Chinese
President Truman looked for a way to prevent war with the Chinese, MacArthur did all he could to provoke it. Finally, in March 1951, he sent a letter to Joseph Martin, a House Republican leader who shared MacArthur’s support for declaring all-out war on China–and who could be counted upon to leak the letter to the pres -
Ridgway
Ridgway launches Operation Ripper -
Peace talks at Panmunjom
n July 1951, President Truman and his new military commanders started peace talks at Panmunjom. -
Presidential Election
President Eisenhower won Presidential election in a landslide. -
Pork Chop Hill
Pork Chop Hill gets attacked by the Communists -
Korean War Ends
The war came to an end. They had lost 5 million soldiers and civilian lives. -
The War Settlement
They could not agree on whether prisoners of war should be forcibly “repatriated.” (The Chinese and the North Koreans said yes; the United States said no.) Finally, after more than two years of negotiations, the adversaries signed an armistice on July 27, 1953. The agreement allowed the POWs to stay where they liked; drew a new boundary near the 38th parallel that gave South Korea an extra 1,500 square miles of territory; and created a 2-mile-wide “demilitarized zone” that still exists today. -
Peace Treaty
Peace Treaty signed at Panmunjom. 38th parallel reset as boundary between communist North and anti-communist South. Cold War tensions continue unabated.
