Korean+War

=Korean War= When both countries withdrew from the country in 1949 the USSR left a communist government and a strong Soviet military force, while the United States left the southern portion under the control of Syngmaan Rhee. The Americans left behind Rhee who formed a weak government that proved to tempting to the nationalist North Korean's to handle. ||  ||
 * The Korean War started for the United States when communist North Korean forces crossed the southern border and proceeded to occupy most of the country including the South Korean capital of Seoul. As this happened so did the first military engagement of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. By the end of 1945 both the USSR and America had both sent troops into Korea and caused a divide of the nation at the 38th parallel.
 * The North Korean invasion of South Korea began on June 27, 1950. The President of the United States Harry Truman quickly looked to the United Nations to intervene. Although the invasion began without the order of the Soviet Leader, Stalin, he supported it once it began. Stalin was boycotting the United Nations at the time on grounds that the United Nations would not recognize the new communist government of China and therefore was not able to exercise its veto power against the UN decision to send aid to the Rhee government. The invasion of South Korean was countered by a UN, but largely American, invasion and retaking of nearly the whole peninsula by General MacArthur. Soon however it came to a stalemate and was settleted in 1953 at an Armistice line. || media type="youtube" key="zuglToooITY" height="349" width="425" ||
 * During this time period there was an extreme amount of anti-communist hysteria in the United States that led to a few important events. During this Red Scare as some called it, Russia successfully tested its first nuclear weapons and immediatly there were whispers of a conspiracy that an insider had passed American secrets to the Russians. The blame associated with this scandal fell on a couple in New York City that were a part of the Communist Party, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Ethel's brother David Greenglass was a machinist in the Manhattan Project, the program for creating nuclear weapons, who admitted to orchestrating the espionage along with his brother and sister-in-law. They died on the electric chair on April 5, 1951, despite several appeals and protests by sympathizers. || [[image:http://whiteesworkshop.com/images/electric_chair.bmp width="381" height="380" caption="An Early Electric Chair"]] ||