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It's known as "The Forgotten War", but all American should learn about it and remember it ... and that's where you can help. You have been asked to develop a "Korea  9 3 2 1" webpage to cover the basic information everyone should know about the Korean War - all on one page. Your page should include ...  9  - facts about the causes, impact, and events of the Korean War (look at my examples below) 3  - photos that help tell the story of the war, with descriptive captions  2  - maps that helps to explain the war. 1  - quote that is essential to understanding the war, with authors and context   ** 3 **** - Photos should help tell the story of the war, so find **** three photos **** that work ... and provide a descriptive caption. **
 * 9 - Come up with 9 great facts that everyone should know about “The Forgotten War.”**
 * 1.** President Truman saw the conflict in Korea as a chance to test out his containment policy; a containment policy is a policy of trying to stop another nation’s influence from spreading. The term especially refers to America’s attempts to contain communism and stop it from spreading in the 1940s and 1950s.
 * 2. ** The United Nations wanted to stop the Communist move into South Korea. Sixteen nations provided the UN with soldiers, U.S. troops made up most of this force and did the most fighting. General Douglas MacArthur, the WWII hero from the Pacific, commanded all of the UN troops.
 * 3. **<span style="font-size: 7pt; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Trebuchet MS'; msobidifontweight: bold; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In the beginning of the war, North Korean forces pushed the South Koreans back to Pusan, a city on the southeastern tip of the Korean P\peninsula. MacArthur reversed this situation by landing //his// troops at Inchon, a port city behind North Korean lines.
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">4. **<span style="font-size: 7pt; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Trebuchet MS'; msobidifontweight: bold; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">After MacArthur’s daring invasion of Inchon, the North Koreans retreated across the 38th parallel, the line o latitude dividing North and South Korea. MacArthur received permission from the UN and President Truman to invade North Korea; Truman hoped that this invasion would lead to a reunion of the two Koreas. As the UN pushed northward past the 38th parallel, they neared the Yalu River, the boundary between China and North Korea. Seeing the movement of UN forces into North Korea as a threat, leaders in Communist China ordered them to stop.
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">5. **<span style="font-size: 7pt; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Trebuchet MS'; msobidifontweight: bold; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The UN forces continued advancing towards the Yalu River despite China’s warnings that any further advance would force them to enter the war. On November 25, 1950, hundreds of thousands of Chinese Communist troops attacked across the Yalu River. They drove the UN troops back to South Korea. By early 1951, the two sides were in a stalemate on the 38th parallel.
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">6. **<span style="font-size: 7pt; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Trebuchet MS'; msobidifontweight: bold; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">General MacArthur wanted permission to blockade China’s coasts and bomb the country; President Truman refused, feeling that such an action would draw in the Soviet Union and possibly lead to another world war. But MacArthur would not listen to Truman; he tried to win support for his war aims by speaking and writing to the publishers of magazines and newspapers and even wrote to Republican leaders.
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">7. **<span style="font-size: 7pt; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Trebuchet MS'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As Commander in Chief, Truman viewed MacArthur’s public criticism of his orders as undermining civilian control of the military. As a result, MacArthur was fired. Although MacArthur won sympathy for himself with his farewell speech, most people camee to agree with Truman’s actions.
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">8. **<span style="font-size: 7pt; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Trebuchet MS'; msobidifontweight: bold; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The war became more and more unpopular as it dragged on. By july of 1951, Truman accepted a Soviet suggestion that truce talks begin. These talks dragged on for two years and continued The Election of 1952. Eisenhower, the Republican candidate, criticized the war. He promised to go to Korea and end the unpopular war. When he was elected, he did go through on promise, attending meetings between North and South Korea in which he eventually compromised to end the war. But he did secretly warn that he was prepared to use nuclear weapons and bring the war into China.
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">9. **<span style="font-size: 7pt; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Trebuchet MS'; msobidifontweight: bold;"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A cease-fire ended the fighting in July 1953. The Koreas were back to having a border near the 38th parallel and Communism in Korea had been contained. Still, many Americans were frustrated by the indecisive war. Some politicians, including Joseph McCarthy, used this frustration for their own benefit.



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 * 2- **** Insert two maps that help tell the story of the causes, events, and/or impact of the map (with a caption for each) **

1 ** - ** You know historical quotes can bring old crusty things to life, so find one decent quote that helps add to the content of the Korean War (and provide some context)** <span style="font-size: 7pt; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Trebuchet MS'; msobidifontweight: bold;"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> "Until this moment, Senator, I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness...Senator. You have really done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" // Joseph Welch said this at the McCarthy hearings on April 12, 1954. The hearings were just one example of the nearly hysterical fear of Communism that swept the US during the Cold War and especially after Korea. After the Korean War, politicians like McCarthy used this fear and people’s frustration with the outcome of the war for their own good. //