NO BW TODAY…… Let’s discuss anyway….• What did NSC-68 suggest? How did this document become more

important after the outbreak of war in Korea?• Explain the division of Korea. Include how it was divided, why,

influence of the superpowers and their goals.• Originally the division of Korea was supposed to be temporary, so

what changed this? Why was it difficult (impossible) to unite Korea?• How was the UN involved in the Korean War?• Explain the roles of Stalin & Mao in starting the Korean War. • What a)international considerations and b)domestic considerations

would have influenced Truman to become involved in the Korean War?

The Korean War

The first “hot war”25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953

Explain the division of Korea. Include how it was divided, why, influence of the superpowers and their goals.

A Divided Korea• Division of Korea was the result of an Allied

victory in WWII– Ended Japan’s 35-year colonial rule– US and USSR agreed to temporary occupation– Zone of control & division along the 38th

parallel– Purpose of occupation was to establish a

Korean provisional government that would eventually become free and independent (formal divide – 1948)

• Republic of Korea (ROK - South Korea)– Supported by the U.S. and UN

• Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK - North Korea)– Supported by Soviet Union & China

Cairo Conference: November 1943• Jiang (& his wife), FDR &

Churchill……where was Stalin?

• The three powers declared that they were, "mindful of the enslavement of the people of Korea, ... determined that in due course Korea shall become free and independent.”

Korea post-WWII• After atomic bombing in August

1945, Soviet forces invaded Manchuria (Yalta Conference)

• Continued into Korea but stopped at 38th parallel

• US fearful that entire peninsula would fall under Soviet control, so sent occupying forces

Originally the division of Korea was supposed to be temporary, so what changed this? Why was it difficult (impossible) to unite Korea?

Allied Occupation of Korea

• Captured North Korean women were sometimes raped and forced to work as sex slaves – comfort women

South Korean citizens protest

Allied occupation (trusteeship)

How was the UN involved in the Korean War?

Explain the roles of Stalin & Mao in starting the Korean War.

Welcome celebration for the Red

Army in Pyongyang (October

1945)

The entire war in four maps…..

North Korea invades South

June 24, 1950

US/UN Response

September – October 1950

• US troops invade at Inchon

• UN intervenes & captures Pyongyang

China Enters War

November 4, 1950

• Pushed UN forces back and captured Seoul

Stalemate

March 1951-March 1953

• US-UN-ROK coalition • Negotiations begin in 1951 and

demilitarized zone is established• Armistice formally reestablished

division of Korea

20th Century Battlefields: Korean War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzPlkGN5LLg

HOMEWORK: Effects of

Korean War

North Korea invades South Korea• http://korean-war.commemoration.gov.au/k

orean-war-begins/communist-advance-toward-pusan.php

• http://history.howstuffworks.com/korean-war/korean-war.htm