POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
KOREAS PARTITION
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American troops caused the Korean troops to retreat back, resulting in a victory.
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This is a made up battle.
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Korea won.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -It was one of the first major engagements of the Korean War. An army of 140, 000 UN troops, having been pushed to the brink of defeat, were rallied to make a final stand against the invading Korean People’s Army (KPA), 98, 000 men strong.
Detailed explanation-2: -Not until the first weeks of August was the United Nations Command (UNC), as MacArthur’s theatre forces were redesignated, able to slow the North Koreans and finally stop them at the “Pusan Perimeter, ” a line that roughly followed the Naktong River and protected the vital southern port of Pusan.
Detailed explanation-3: -Impact of the Korean War The Korean War armistice, signed on July 27, 1953, drew a new border between North Korea and South Korea, granting South Korea some additional territory and demilitarizing the zone between the two nations. A formal peace treaty was never signed. Over 2.5 million people died in the Korean War.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Korean War was an important development in the Cold War because it was the first time that the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, had fought a ‘proxy war ‘ in a third country. The proxy war or ‘limited war ‘ strategy would be a feature of other Cold War conflicts, for example the Vietnam War.