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    In 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea after crossing the 38th parallel border. In response, President Truman ordered U.S. air and naval forces to help South Korea repel the invasion after the U.N. Security Council called on members to offer military assistance. As the fighting escalated, South Korea placed its forces under U.N. command. While Korea was not originally part of the U.S. Asian defense strategy, the administration feared the conflict could widen and involve Communist China and the Soviet Union. Truman told reporters most U.N. members supported U.S. actions in Korea, though he said the U.S. was not officially at war. Washington saw stabilizing Korea as crucial to counter

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    In 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea after crossing the 38th parallel border. In response, President Truman ordered U.S. air and naval forces to help South Korea repel the invasion after the U.N. Security Council called on members to offer military assistance. As the fighting escalated, South Korea placed its forces under U.N. command. While Korea was not originally part of the U.S. Asian defense strategy, the administration feared the conflict could widen and involve Communist China and the Soviet Union. Truman told reporters most U.N. members supported U.S. actions in Korea, though he said the U.S. was not officially at war. Washington saw stabilizing Korea as crucial to counter

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    In 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea after crossing the 38th parallel border. In response, President Truman ordered U.S. air and naval forces to help South Korea repel the invasion after the U.N. Security Council called on members to offer military assistance. As the fighting escalated, South Korea placed its forces under U.N. command. While Korea was not originally part of the U.S. Asian defense strategy, the administration feared the conflict could widen and involve Communist China and the Soviet Union. Truman told reporters most U.N. members supported U.S. actions in Korea, though he said the U.S. was not officially at war. Washington saw stabilizing Korea as crucial to counter

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    Running head: KOREAN WAR

    Korean War
    Jamie Erwin
    HIS/135
    December 6, 2015
    Professor Shari Manley

    KOREAN WAR

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    Korean War

    In 1950, two days after the North Korean Peoples Army crossed the 38th parallel border
    to invade South Korea, President Harry S. Truman ordered the U.S. Air Force and Navy to help
    South Korea repel the invasion. Truman acted after the U.N. Security Council called for member
    nations to offer military assistance to the government in Seoul headed by Syngman Rhee. On the
    same day, Rhee and other government officials fled the beleaguered South Korean capital. As the
    fighting escalated, Rhee put South Koreas forces under the authority of the U.N. command.
    Before the invasion, which caught the United States by surprise, Korea wasnt
    specifically included in the strategic Asian defense perimeter described by Secretary of State
    Dean Acheson. The administration, however, feared that the Korean War could soon widen into a
    global conflict should Communist China and/or the Soviet Union decide to become involved.
    On June 29, Truman told reporters that most of the members of the United Nations are
    in full accord with what we are doing on the Korean peninsula.
    Mr. President, everybody is asking in this country, are we or are we not at war? a
    reporter asked.
    We are not at war, Truman replied.
    Washington saw Japanas a crucial counterweight to the Soviet Union and China.
    The recognition that the security of Japan required a non-hostile Korea led directly to
    [Trumans] decision to intervene. The essential point is that the American response to the
    North Korean attack stemmed from considerations of U.S. policy toward Japan.

    KOREAN WAR

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