A brief summary of the Korean War (1950-1953)

1. Korean War (1950-1953)
The Forgotten War

2. Korean War Memorial

3. Herbert Block (1951)
John Chase (1950)
“We’ve been using more of a roundish one.”

4. Major Players
Kim Il Sung: unify Korea under Communism. Ruled
from 1948 to 1994.
Father of Kim Jong-Il. He ruled from 1994 to 2011
Grandfather of Kim Jong-Un. He ruled from 2011 to
Present
Syngman Rhee: anti-communist dictator.

5. Family Lineage

6. Major Players

7. Question!
← How did the U.S. and U.S.S.R
get the “right” to divide up Korea?

8. United Nations Police Action
July 1950
Commander-in-Chief of the
United Nations Command.
August 1950

9. Truman Doctrine
Why would the U.S. lead the United Nations
into Korea only five years out of WWII?

10. United Nations Police Action
October-November 1950 November-January 1951 Until July 1953: Truce Line

11. Effects
Military Industrial
Complex
Lost any chance of positive
political relations with China.
Public dissatisfaction with not
being the “winners”.
Desegregated military
units.