POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
KOREAS PARTITION
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They managed to conquer Korea.
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They helped North Korea push the USA and South Korean forces back across the 38th parallel.
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They could not defeat the USA and South Korea, so North Korean forces remained in China.
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They were attacked by the USA with nuclear weapons.
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Detailed explanation-1: -UN forces invaded North Korea in October 1950 and moved rapidly towards the Yalu River-the border with China-but on 19 October 1950, Chinese forces of the People’s Volunteer Army (PVA) crossed the Yalu and entered the war. The UN retreated from North Korea after the First Phase Offensive and the Second Phase Offensive.
Detailed explanation-2: -Following setbacks sustained by the Korean People’s Army and the crossing of the 38th parallel by the United Nations Command led by the United States Armed Forces, in October 1950 Chinese forces secretly crossed into North Korea in response to security concern of a possible U.S. invasion of Chinese territory.
Detailed explanation-3: -What happened when China decided to join the Korean War? They managed to conquer Korea. They helped North Korea push the USA and South Korean forces back across the 38th parallel.
Detailed explanation-4: -38th parallel, popular name given to latitude 38° N that in East Asia roughly demarcates North Korea and South Korea. The line was chosen by U.S. military planners at the Potsdam Conference (July 1945) near the end of World War II as an army boundary, north of which the U.S.S.R.