A massive artillery barrage from the North signals the beginning of the Korean War. Roughly 100,000 North Korean troops pour across the 38th parallel, and, although South Korean forces are driven back, they retire in good order. June 27, 1950 The United Nations Security Council adopts Resolut...
At the close ofWorld War II, the victorious Allied Powers did not know what to do with the Korean Peninsula. Korea had been a Japanese colony since the late nineteenth century, so westerners thought the country incapable of self-rule. The Korean people, however, were eager to re-establish ...
The first true test of the Cold War erupted in 1950, and for six months combat raged up and down the Korean peninsula before settling into years of trench warfare.CBS NewsAug. 15, 1945An agreement following the end of World War II divides Korea - formerly annexed by Axis power Japan - ...
Korean War A remnant from World War II when the Soviet Union, in 1945, wrested control of the Korean peninsula from Japanese control north of the 38th parallel with the United States in the south. By 1948, with Cold War tensions rampant, the peninsula was separated into two halves, North ...
Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. It was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons. T
On June 25, 1950, the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet‑backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro‑Western Re
The division of Korea in 1945 into the Soviet-supported communist North Korea and American-supported democratic South Korea set the stage for theKorean War(1950-1953). This was an exceptionally deadly war, with three million civilian casualties. Korea remains divided to this day. ...
June 25th: Korean War begins. October 6th: The People's Republic of China annexes Tibet. 1953 January 20: Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated. July 27th: Korean War ends. 1955 November 1st: Vietnam War begins. 1961 January 20: John F. Kennedy is inaugurated. 1962 October 16th – 28th:...
Explore the causes of the Korean War. Understand when the Korean War started and ended. Learn details about dates and timeline, and discover who...
This is a timeline of events chronicling the events of Homefront and the events preceding it. Many of the events are sourced from Newspapers found in the game. August 22: The Empire of Japan occupies the Korean Peninsula. April 15: Kim Il-sung, future fo