Korean War

Korean War 1950-1953 The Korean War took place between the years of 1950 and 1953. The cause of the war was that Korea was under Japanese rule ever since the end of the Chinese-Japanese war in 1895. After World War II, in 1945, Korea was freed from Japan. The United States troops occupied the southern part of the country and Russian forces took the north. The very first and main reason we entered the war in Korea was because …showed first 75 words of 956 total…

…showed last 75 words of 956 total…died, and the U.S. did not even, necessarily, win. North Korea succeeded in turning South Korea into a communist nation. On the other hand, the U.S. succeeded in preventing the domino effect, further stopping the spread of communism. I do, however, think it was important to stop communism, so if the United States would have tried alternating peace methods and still did not succeed, then sending in the troops was acceptable and important.