History of the United States II / Unit 13 USH2 1819 short lesson, about 20 seconds
War in Korea
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The idea
On June twenty-fifth, nineteen fifty, war broke out along the thirty-eighth parallel as North Korean forces invaded the South, the National Archives records.
In practice
The peninsula divided since nineteen forty-five, with ten million Koreans separated from their families, as Digital History notes.
Where people slip
The United States, the Yawp says, pressed the United Nations to support the South and sent troops.
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