about korean war HOW EMERGE HOW IT STARTED

1. Date: 12/12/12
Activity: Korean War
Warm Up: Explain the
overall conflict in
Korea in the 1950s
and how it related to
the Cold War.
-Homework:
-Vocabulary due
Friday
Pg Assignment Date
60 1950s Power Point Notes 12/3
61 Red Scare 12/5
62 Study Guide 12/6
62
A
Study Guide 12/6
63 Korea Notes 12/11
64 Korea ppt Notes 12/11
65 Unit 4 Vocab 12/12
Welcome to Contemporary U.S. and World History

2. THE
KOREAN
WAR

3. • AFTER WWII:
– KOREA IS SPLIT
ALONG THE 38TH
PARALLEL
– NORTH = COMMUNIST
& USSR CONTROLLED
– SOUTH = CAPITALIST
& U.S. CONTROLLED
– NORTH MILITARIZES,
SOUTH DOES NOT
– SOVIETS ASSUME THE
U.S. WON’T DEFEND
SOUTH KOREA
• JUNE 25, 1950 NORTH
KOREA CROSSES
THE 38TH PARALLEL
INTO SOUTH KOREA

5. • SOUTH KOREA TURNS TO
THE UNITED NATIONS
• FIRST TEST FOR THE UN
AS A PEACEKEEPING
ORGANIZATION
• SOVIETS PROTEST THE
UN VOTE BECAUSE OF
TAIWAN’S SEAT ON THE
SECURITY COUNCIL
• UN VOTES TO RESTORE
THE BORDER AT THE 38TH
PARALLEL:
– PRESIDENT TRUMAN
ORDERS AMERICAN
TROOPS TO SUPPORT
SOUTH KOREA
– GEN. DOUGLAS MacARTHUR
IS NAMED COMMANDER OF
UN FORCES IN KOREA

7. • NORTH KOREAN FORCES
ADVANCE TO PUSAN:
– SOUTH KOREAN CAPITAL
OF SEOUL IS CAPTURED
– U.S. (UN) FORCES UNDER
MACARTHUR HOLD THE
PUSAN PERIMETER

11. AFTER HOLDING
THE PUSAN
PERIMETER,
MacARTHUR
LAUNCHES A
DARING
AMPHIBIOUS
ASSAULT AT
INCHON, FORCING
NORTH KOREAN
FORCES TO
RETREAT.

12. • AFTER INCHON, TRUMAN
ORDERED MACARTHUR
TO DRIVE THE
COMMUNISTS NORTH
• THE UN MANDATE ONLY
CALLED FOR A
REESTABLISHMENT OF
THE BORDER AT THE
38TH PARALLEL
• HOWEVER, TRUMAN SAW
AN OPPORTUNITY TO:
– DEFEAT COMMUNISM IN
KOREA COMPLETELY
– SECURE HIS REELECTION
IN 1952
• THUS, UN FORCES PUSH
INTO NORTH KOREA

13. ENTER THE CHINESE
• COMMUNIST CHINA
FELT THREATENED BY
U.S. TROOPS
• WANTED A BUFFER-
ZONE BETWEEN THEM
AND SOUTH KOREA
• SENT 300,000 TROOPS
ACROSS THE YALU
RIVER TO PUSH
MacARTHUR AND THE
UN FORCES BACK
• STALEMATE SOUTH
OF THE 38TH
PARALLEL

19. WHO IS THIS KOREAN WAR MARINE PILOT?
HINT: A BASEBALL LEGEND
TED WILLIAMS

20. • Mac BELIEVED THE
ONLY WAY TO DEFEAT
NORTH KOREA WOULD
BE TO ATTACK CHINA
• TRUMAN DISAGREED,
NOT WANTING TO
PROVOKE THE
RUSSIANS (WHO NOW
HAD ATOMIC BOMBS)
• Mac WENT TO
CONGRESS AND MET
WITH REPUBLICAN
LEADERS BEHIND
TRUMAN’S BACK
• IF YOU WERE
TRUMAN, WHAT
WOULD YOU DO?

21. • MacARTHUR WAS A WW II HERO AND MEDAL OF
HONOR RECIPIENT & WAS VERY POPULAR WITH
THE AMERICAN PUBLIC

22. NONETHELESS . . .
• TRUMAN FIRED
MacARTHUR FOR
INSUBORDINATION

23. MacARTHUR’S RETIREMENT
SPEECH BEFORE CONGRESS

24. I AM CLOSING MY 52 YEARS OF MILITARY SERVICE.
WHEN I JOINED THE ARMY, EVEN BEFORE THE
TURN OF THE CENTURY, IT WAS THE FULLFILLMENT
OF ALL OF MY BOYISH HOPES AND DREAMS. THE
WORLD HAS TURNED OVER MANY TIMES SINCE I
TOOK THE OATH AT WEST POINT, AND THE HOPES
AND DREAMS HAVE ALL SINCE VANISHED, BUT I
STILL REMEMBER THE REFRAIN OF ONE OF THE
MOST POPULAR BARRACKS BALLADS OF THAT DAY
WHICH PROCLAIMED MOST PROUDLY THAT OLD
SOLDIERS NEVER DIE; THEY JUST FADE AWAY. AND
LIKE THE OLD SOLDIER OF THAT BALLAD, I NOW
CLOSE MY MILITARY CAREER AND JUST FADE
AWAY, AN OLD SOLDIER WHO TRIED TO DO HIS
DUTY AS GOD GAVE HIM THE LIGHT TO SEE THAT
DUTY.
GOOD BYE.

25. • STALEMATE FROM 1951-
1953 AT THE 38TH
PARALLEL
• EISENHOWER BECOMES
PRESIDENT IN 1953
• ARMISTICE IN JULY OF
1953 ~ NO PEACE TREATY
EVER SIGNED!
• BOTH NATIONS SET UP
TROOPS ALONG THE 38TH
PARALLEL, NOW CALLED
THE DEMILITARIZED
ZONE (DMZ)

26. TECHNICALLY, NORTH AND SOUTH
KOREA ARE STILL AT WAR!
THE DMZ IS THE WORLD’S
MOST SECURE BORDER,
AND SINCE 1953 THE TWO
KOREAS HAVE DEVELOPED
INTO TWO VERY DIFFERENT
NATIONS…

27. WHAT DOES
THIS
NIGHT
SATELITE
PHOTO
TELL YOU
ABOUT THE
TWO
KOREAS?

28. SO IN SUMMARY…

29. THE “FORGOTTEN WAR”
• KOREA WAS A
LIMITED WAR:
– CONTAIN
COMMUNISTS
– PUSH NORTH
KOREANS OUT OF
SOUTH KOREA
• REFERRED TO BY
U.S. GOV’T AS A
“POLICE ACTION”
• OFTEN CALLED
THE “FORGOTTEN
WAR”

30. PERHAPS BEST REMEMBERED BY
MOST AMERICANS AS THE BACKDROP
TO A POPULAR TV SERIES . . .