Korean+War+Maps


 * [[image:Korea1.jpg width="364" height="386" caption="June-August 1950"]] || * ==== On June 25, 1950 the North Korean army crossed the 38th parallel ====
 * ==== Invasion forces totaling over 90,000 troops and 150 Soviet-built tanks struck in coordinated assaults into South Korea ====
 * ==== By the night of June 28, South Korean capital Seoul had fallen ====
 * ==== The United Nations passed a resolution that… //"the members of the United Nations furnish such assistance to the Republic of Korea as may be necessary to repel the armed attack and to restore international peace and security to the area."// ====
 * ==== Unable to slow the enemy, the Americans and South Koreans fought desperate delaying operations ====
 * ==== By the end of July, the North Koreans had pushed the U.N. forces to Pusan ==== ||
 * * ==== MacArthur completely changed the course of the war by ordering an amphibious invasion at the port of Inchon, near Seoul. ====
 * ==== The Americans quickly gained control of Inchon and recaptured Seoul ====
 * ==== American and ROK forces broke out of the Pusan Perimeter and chased the retreating enemy north. ==== || [[image:Korea2.jpg width="365" height="388" caption="September 1950"]] ||
 * [[image:New_Picture_(10).jpg width="372" height="447" caption="Nov/Dec 1950"]] || * ==== MacArthur received permission to pursue the enemy into North Korea. ====
 * ==== Chinese warned that, "American intrusion into North Korea would encounter Chinese resistance" ====
 * ==== On October 25, the Chinese struck with considerable force ====
 * ==== US troops were beyond supply and were freezing in a particularly hard Korean winter ====
 * ==== MacArthur pressed Washington to take the fight into China ====
 * ==== MacArthur pushed for the use of atomic weapons against the Chinese ==== ||
 * * ==== The combined Chinese and North Korea forces pushed the UN forced south ====
 * ==== On November 28, a shaken MacArthur - "We face an entirely new war.“ ====
 * UN forces pushed back down the
 * Seoul changed hands yet again on January 5
 * U.N. retreat ended 70 miles below Seoul || [[image:Korea4.jpg width="364" height="387" align="left" caption="January-June 1951"]] ||
 * [[image:Korea5.jpg width="364" height="389" caption="June 1951-July 1953"]] || * ==== Inflicting heavy casualties on the Chinese and North Koreans, the U.N. re-recaptured Seoul ====
 * ==== The war entered a stalemate and bogged down into what has been described as a "meat grinder" ====
 * ==== General MacArthur pushing Washington to, “remove the restrictions on his forces" ====
 * ==== Truman had to weigh continuing a "limited war" or increasing the size and scope of US involvement in the war ==== ||
 * [[image:Korea5.jpg width="364" height="389" caption="June 1951-July 1953"]] || * ==== Inflicting heavy casualties on the Chinese and North Koreans, the U.N. re-recaptured Seoul ====
 * ==== The war entered a stalemate and bogged down into what has been described as a "meat grinder" ====
 * ==== General MacArthur pushing Washington to, “remove the restrictions on his forces" ====
 * ==== Truman had to weigh continuing a "limited war" or increasing the size and scope of US involvement in the war ==== ||
 * ==== Truman had to weigh continuing a "limited war" or increasing the size and scope of US involvement in the war ==== ||

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