USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -General MacArthur called for the use of atomic weapons to defend Korea but this was denied by President Truman and MacArthur was sacked. More UN troops were deployed to Korea and the communists were eventually driven back to the 38th parallel. The war became a stalemate.

Detailed explanation-2: -From July 1951, until the end of hostilities the battle lines remained relatively stable and the conflict became a stalemate.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Korean War was an incomplete American victory in its failure to liberate North Korea and unite the peninsula, but a victory nonetheless. And not just from a military perspective, but from a moral one as well. The reason 35, 000 Americans died in Korea was to keep at least half the Korean people free.

Detailed explanation-4: -After three years of fighting, the war ended in a stalemate with the border between North and South Korea near where it had been at the war’s beginning.