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27th June 1950: President Truman sends US navy and air force to Korea
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2018-06-26 21:05:00
Description: US President Harry S. Truman ordered air and naval forces to assist South Korea against an invasion by North Korea. Towards the end of the Second World War in 1945 the ‘big three’ powers of the USA, the USSR and Great Britain met at the Yalta Conference. As part of a wide-ranging series of agreements, Korea was divided along the 38th parallel with a Soviet occupied zone in the north and Americans in the south. In May 1948 the north, led by Kim Il-sung, declared itself the communist Korean Democratic People’s Republic. The democratic Republic of Korea soon followed in the ...
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