The Ending of the Korean War

Factors that lead to the ending of the Korean War

Changing Soviet Leadership (Why might communist countries be

concerned? How might this help the USA and its allies?)

● This lead to the war ending because they wanted an armistice

Changing American Leadership (How might a change of leadership affect

the war? Why might President Eisenhowwer want to end the war?)

● This lead to the war ending because Eisenhower wanted to stop nuclear bomb
testing and agreed to the armistice

Cost of the war (How might this have affected both sides' desire to end the war?)
● This lead to the war ending because they were spending 341 billion pounds on
war that had to stop

Casualties and Military losses (How might this have affected both sides'
desire to end the war?)

● This lead to the war ending because roughly 5413000 people died, were wounded
and were missing afterwards

Chinese Failings (What was going wrong in the Chinese war effort? How might this
have encouraged them to end the war?)

● This lead to the war ending because there

Stalemate (How might this have affected both sides' desire to end the war?)
● This lead to the war ending because all the armies stopped fighting
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What happened during the Peace Talks of 1951?

● the negotiators all started arguing with each other and shouted and moaned at
everything the opposition said

How did the war in Korea end?

● it ended when the armies signed the armistice