Austin Smith and Michael Muir discuss how Korea, historically a unified peninsula, was divided in 1945 after Japan's 35-year ...

These volunteers helped to push the UN forces back across the 38th parallel. The USSR was afraid of provoking a World War and therefore helped the North Koreans and the Chinese through indirect or ...

The problems of limited war; the origins of the Korean War; Truman and the decision to intervene; Inchon and the decision to cross the 38th parallel; the Chinese intervention and its consequences; the ...