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Korean War
Title: Korean War
Category: History
Details: Words: 1106 | Pages: 4.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Korean War
The Korean War
The Korean War was a civil and military struggle that was fought on the Korea Peninsula and that reached its height between 1950 and 1953.
What Happened
The Korean War originated in the division of Korea into South Korea and North Korea after World War II (1939-1945). Efforts to reunify the peninsula after the war failed, and in 1948 the South proclaimed the Republic of Korea and the North established the People's Republic of Korea. In 1949, …showed first 75 words of 1106 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1106 total…in fact heavily fortified; as of the late 1990s, more than 1 million soldiers confronted each other along the zone. With no peace treaty signed, the two Koreas remained technically still at war; only the armistice agreement and demilitarized zone kept a shaky peace.
The United States spent billion on the war. All parts of Korea were heavily damaged. About 1 million civilians were killed in South Korea, and property damage was estimated at more than billion.
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