Running head: KOREAN WAR

Korean War Chartorieah Shinez Sanders HIS/135 July 28, 2013 Christopher Martin

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Korean War

There were two immediate effects of the Korean War, the first is the fact that on June 24, 1950, the North Korean Army ambushed the pro-Western half of the Korean peninsula to the south. Brinkley, (2012). They had taken over a large percentage of South Korea, including the capital of the land, Seoul, within a matter of days. This invasion left millions of Koreans lifeless, this number includes the lives lost of innocent civilians as well. The second immediate effect of the Korean War came into place when South Korea was accidentally excluded from Americas defense perimeter by the American government Brinkley, (2012). The North Koreans took this as an implication that America would not defend South Korea in the event of warfare, but they were wrong. According to Brinkley, The Truman administration responded quickly to the invasion. On June 27, 1950, the president appealed to the United Nations to intervene Brinkley, (2012). The United States chose to side with South Korea, when they provided soldiers to assist in the resist of the invasion with North Korea this gave the North more ammunition to take over the South and the pushed harder and further across southern boundaries. Trumans response to the North Korean invasion in June 1950 was to defend the South Korean troops and to help them resist communism. I definitely believe that his response was justified because had he not sent in the U.S. troops in and asked for help from the U.N., the Korean War would have turned out worse than it had. Neither side won, instead there was a stalemate. If Truman had not responded the way he did, people would have been forced into communism because those that were supposed to be in power, were not strong enough to keep their land from being conquered alone.

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Reference Page Brinkley, A. (2012). American history: Connecting with the past (14th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.