Korean War

Korean War

Korean War
Throughout history the United Sates of America has had to protect the great freedom that we have. Japan had control of Korea for 35 years, but after WWII Korea was free. Hitler committed suicide and “A” bombs dropped in Japan ending WWII. Korea splits into two governments that divide the country on September 1948; communist U.S.S.R. converted North Korea to communist. When communist spread to North Korea, Americans began to believe that if it wasn’t stop another war with communist would began. Thus President Harry S. Truman decided to take military action when communist North Korea, on June 25, 1950, invaded nationalist South Korea and this led to the Korean War.
Truman never ask the congress permission to enter the Korean War even thought President of North Korea Kim II Sung claimed that both South Korea and North Korea were having a civil war. “Truman justified his action on the grounds that in the atomic age the President must be able to make quick decision without waiting for congressed to move through it’s lengthy debates.” Before the United States got involved in the war we had other problems, we where already fighting a war with U.S.S.R. knows as the Cold War but with out any military action only diploidic and political ways in America, other problems was organized crime in California’s prisons during early 1950’s and late 1970’s, before any action happened in North Korea, North Korea had 135,000 soldiers ready to attack and who were getting military supplies from China and the U.S.S.R., in South Korea they only had 95,000 soldiers who were training under a U.S. military advisor group progressed much beyond company-level exercises. Under the Programmed Mutual Defense Assistance both the United State and the United Nations send $11 million dollars in material assistance had been given to South Korea in the physical years in 1950.
On June 25, 1950 North Korea invaded South Korea and quickly North Korea crushed South Korea defenses at the...

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