CSPAN3 Lectures In History Joseph Glatthaar On Korean War Civil-Military... October 14, 2022
The u. S. , and the soviet union joined the occupied korea. They agreed to divide korea. Not northern korea what we call today to north korea was a very much communist influence. Southern influence, we now call south korea was a very different situation. With the assistance of the un they sponsored elections in south korea and south koreans elected a democratic government. North korea however wanted to unite under its terms so it sent insurgents into south korea to try to overthrow that government and they failed to do so. Then, on january 1950 the u. S. Secretary of state dean acheson had ver...