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Cold War episode 5 - Korea 1949-1953

Cold War episode 5 – Korea 1949-1953

Cold War episode 5 – Korea 1949-1953: In June1950, North Korea invades the South, with Stalin’s blessing. The United States, backed by the United Nations, defends South Korea, and then is confronted by communist China. In mid-1951, the war grinds to a bloody stalemate but eventually an armistice is signed. Aggression has contained. Korea was split between the United States […]

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Korea - The Never Ending War

Korea – The Never Ending War

Korea – The Never Ending War: between 1950 and 1953, more than 24 nations sent troops to Korea as the opposing ambitions and ideologies of the emerging Cold War superpowers – China, Russia and the USA – fought for supremacy on the peninsula.     With first-hand testimony and new historical material, Korea: The Never Ending War retraces the history

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