History of the United States II / Unit 13 USH2 1822 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds
The Korean Armistice
The idea
The Korean War ended in an armistice signed on July twenty-seventh, nineteen fifty-three, after Eisenhower's election and Stalin's death that March, as the Yawp records. The line settled close to the original thirty-eighth parallel, with a demilitarised zone between the two Koreas, and prisoners of war were allowed to choose whether to return home.
In practice
A demilitarised strip across the peninsula, very near where the war began.
Where people slip
The dead must be stated with care. The anchor gives about thirty-six thousand five hundred American soldiers killed; the Yawp gives over thirty thousand American deaths and one hundred thousand wounded. The anchor adds that most of the war's dead were Korean civilians. The Yawp calls Korea a war rather forgotten in American memory, ending without clear victory.
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