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*Originated as a civil war.

*Korea was divided into two after the defeat in Japan in 1945.

*Guerrilla fighting flared in the south.

*The Americans offered support.

*The Americans started bombing transportation links for China and North Korea.

*The Chinese decided to intervene.

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*The Chinese warned that they will not accept the annihilation North Korea.

*The US ignored the warning from the Chinese.

*On October 25 Chinese soldiers were sent into the war near Yalu.

* In November 26 the Chinese counter attacked the US soldiers

*The Chinese surprised the Americans and sent them running.

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*The war was only to be between the North and the south but it started to spread into becoming an international war.

*The power of congress began to grow.

* China openly supported North Korea which came as a big surprise to the UN and the US.

* China fought with North Korea to expand communism while the US and the UN were fighting to contain it.

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*It wasn’t until July 1943 that they signed the armistice treaty.

*The armistice ended America’s first experiment with the Cold War concept.

*The US president put pressure on his South Korean ally to drop some of its demands in order to speed the peace process.

*The war cost the lives of millions of Koreans and Chinese, as well as over 50,000 Americans.

* The war officially ended July 27, 1953.