Korean War Timeline

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  • General MacArthur's quote about South Korea

    South Korea 'should only be able to provide token resistance to invasion and provide no basis of allegation of being a threat to North Korea.'

  • Successful Testting of Soviet Atomic Bomb

  • "Fall" Of China to Communism

  • Dean Acheson's Defence Perimeter Speech

    omitted South Korea from the list of countries of which US would automatically defend in the event of aggresion.

  • Stalin cautiously agreeing to Kim Il Sung's invasion plans

  • Truman immediately authorised the development of a thermonuclear bomb

  • Stalin warns Kim that USSR would not intervene directly

  • US sponsored a reslotion in the UNSC calling for military actions against North Korea

  • Korean War Breaks out

  • Truman ordered rollback

  • Comunists launched major counter-offensive

    Communists recaptured Seoul and reoccupied Pyongyang

  • Truman relieved MacArthur of his command

  • Kim asked Stalin for peace

    North Korea suffering from heacy bombardment, but Stalin refused as he wanted US' resources to be tied down in Korea
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    Peace Talks

  • Un suffered 11000 caulties in 2 days

    3000 US troops died

  • Stalin's death

  • POW Question

    Syngman Rhee released 27000 POWs under his control.

  • Armstice