The_Korean_War

The Korean War THE KOREAN WAR” WHY DID WE FIGHT IN KOREA' “WHY DID WE FIGHT IN KOREA'” The Korean War took place between the years of 1950 and 1953. The cause of the war was that Korea was under Japanese rule ever since the end of the Chinese-Japanese war in 1895. After World War II, in 1945, Korea was freed from Japan. The United States troops occupied the southern part of the country and Russian forces took the north. The very first and main reason we entered the war in Korea was because John Foster Dulles, the future Secretary of State under Dwight Eisenhower, said that it would be best if we entered the war. At the time Dulles was a special advisor to the Secretary of State Acheson. Dulles was in Tokyo when the Koreans staged war. Dulles sent a message to Acheson that if the South Koreans start losing and cannot hold back the North Koreans, they should send in United States forces. He said to do so, “even though this risks Russian counter moves. To sit by while Korea is overrun by unprovoked armed attack would start a disaster chain even leading most probably to World War III.” When korea, united, war, states, north, nations, south, korean, troops, general, fight, world, should, sent, koreans, forces, dulles, after, took, parallel, june, ii, entered, communist, because, 38th, 1950, word, truman, start, since, said, peace, naval, military