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The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is a region on the Korean peninsula that demarcates North Korea fromSouth Korea

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The outcome of the Korean War included heavy casualties, a country left in ruins and a military victory for neither side. On July 27, 1953, an armistice was signed and the fighting stopped. However, there was continued threat of invasions, and China emerged from the war with renewed strength. Despite the signed truce, the conflict was not settled and Korea remains divided in two nations.

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How did the American public feel about the war?

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How did the American public feel about the war?

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14% of Americans described North Korea's military and weapons capabilities as a "crisis for the United States," and an additional 60% said it was a "major problem."

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Why is this known as the "forgotten war?"

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Why is this known as the "forgotten war?"

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Wedged between America's biggest war, World War II, and Vietnam, our longest war, Korea sometimes gets overlooked. That's unfortunate. Because much needs to be remembered about the conflict that began 50 years ago this June.

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Southeast Treaty Organization: Includes USA, UK, France, Pakistan, Thailand, the Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand

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A war fought to achieve a limited objective, such as containing communism

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How did the geographic location influence war?

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How did the geographic location influence war?

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The 38th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 38 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean.

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Korea, Korean Peninsula, and Korean Demilitarized Zone

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June 25, 1950 – July 27, 1953

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How President Truman react to North Korean invasion of South Korea?

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How President Truman react to North Korean invasion of South Korea?

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The president tripled the U.S. defense budget, dispatched four divisions to Europe, and authorized the rearming of Germany

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it was just another episode in the ongoing Cold War between the USA and the USSR.   On the surface, the Korean War seemed to be a war between South Korea and North Korea, but really the superpowers were just using it as a front to combat each other without actually going into a ‘hot war’ which – as both had the atomic bomb – would have been MAD (mutually assured destruction).

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"General Bradley said that we must draw the line [against Communist expansion] somewhere. The President stated he agreed on that. General Bradley said that Russia is not yet ready for war. The Korean situation offered as good an occasion for action in drawing the line as anywhere else."

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Harry S. Truman was an American politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States, coming to office on the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the last months of World War II.

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"In my generation, this was not the first occasion when the strong had attacked the weak….Communism was acting in Korea just as Hitler, Mussolini, and the Japanese had acted ten, fifteen, and twenty years earlier. I felt certain that if South Korea was allowed to fall, Communist leaders would be emboldened to override nations closer to our own shores."

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Douglas MacArthur was an American five-star general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II.

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Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung, also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary and founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he governed as the Chairman of the Communist

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Chiang Kai-shek, also romanized as Jiang Jieshi and known as Jiang Zhongzheng, was a Chinese political and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975.

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Over six million soldiers, sailors and airmen fought on both sides in the Korean War... More than three million of these were communists from North Korea, China and Russia. Opposing them were almost three million from South Korea and from 21 United Nations (UN) countries including Australia.

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Korean War, conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces in Korea from June 25, 1950, to July 27, 1953. At the end of World War II, Korea was divided at the 38th parallel into Soviet (North Korean) and U.S. (South Korean) zones of occupation.