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The aftermath of disasters that occurred that left the Second World War, were changes in countries, both in the creation of new operating as the United Nations, as in the separation of some, like Korea, but this second point, was what caused the beginning of another war, to ignite the first battle during the cold war. In 1945, the peninsula of Korea is divided, but had always been to Japan since 1910, came the moment that I separated in two, Korea North and South, causing North Korea belonged them to the Soviet troops and American troops South, this turned out like this, since it was an agreement taken as a conclusion of the war of the Pacific. (Guerra de corea, 2004) North Korea, established a Communist Government, by the Soviets, but although the parallel of the two Koreas, was like, I was intensifying, such that, when the triumph of the Communist revolution in china achieved its maximum splendor. (Ocaa, 2003) North Korea It was happy and wanted to get more territory in Asia, making it a direct attack on the South Koreans, ordered on June 25, 1950, in which the troops of General Kim Sung ll crossed the 38th, the border to the divided and advanced triumphantly toward the South. (Ocaa, 2003) But the United States knew before that they attacked them, so started asking for help and the UN Security, for resolution of this conflict, so they went to the aid of South Korea, this caused that immediately Americans thanks to general MacArthur to enter the recovery of lost ground, so on October 19, took Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, as a warning of what they had just started, this gave as a result, the troops of North Korea began to retire, for what
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RUNNING HEAD: THE KOREAN WAR he did, that China and the Soviet Union entered to help to North Korea so that it regained its territory. (Guerra de corea, 2004) After the union of China and mercenary to North Korea, on January 4, 1951, Seoul recovered, a territory lost by war, that impulse to MacArthur by despair ordered North China atomic bombing, what he did to the USSR, already I would not participate in the conflict, because I was afraid that the atomic also shelling out for the, so this manifesto, its intention was not to intervene and but was in favors that there were two different systems in a peninsula, giving thus a military tie, on the opening of negotiations which concluded in July 1953, giving so the two systems continue to exist until now. (Ocaa, 2003) Now lets talk about the Canadian forces that participated in this war. First of all, these days we consider Canada (and it has been considered like since always) a pacific country, almost perfect, actually it has been considered the safest and the best place to live in the world, but if we see the wars they had participated in, we realize they have really tough, disciplined soldiers that know what they are doing. The Canadian forces have: 67,756 troops and 26,000 reservists prepared are equipped with digital camouflage uniform and his main weapon is the modern version M16.Rather than this, they have tons and tons of weapons, so we can say Canada is actually a really powerful army. The Canadian Army has the 13th place in terms of larger military budget in the world, one of the most modern armies in the world, which makes Canada this certainly among the top 15 armies in the world.
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RUNNING HEAD: THE KOREAN WAR Now, going directly to the war: After the Second World War, Canada disappeared completely of the world stage. However, in June 1950 the Korean War broke out, and with it came the first military participation of the NATO forces. Canada needed several months to organize its military forces, and eventually formed part of British Commonwealth Forces in Korea, alongside nations such as Australia. Canadian land forces thus missed most of the first campaigns as they did not arrive until November 1951, when the attrition phase of the war had begun. Canadian troops fought as part of the 1st Commonwealth Division, and distinguished themselves at the Battle of Kapyong and in other land disputes. In total, Canada sent 26,791 men to South Korea, and three destroyers, a squadron of air and 22 fighter pilots. There were 1558 Canadian casualties, including 516 dead until July 27, 1953 when hostilities ceased. Canada was a one of the countries that signed the original 1953 armistice, but did not let anything stay in South Korea after 1955.(The Canadian Encyclopedia) Because the land in the north and South Korea is so cold and mountainous, many soldiers died of freezing before reaching the battlefield. The temperature in some areas dropped below zero for various periods of time. The Canadians soldiers were the exception, because they were used to really cold temperatures, even more freezing that the ones on the Asian countries, Because of this situation, some Canadians lead the war on cold environments, dying of gunshots and many other things, but never died because of freezing. Although many political tensions also led to the conflict between North Korea and South, the main dispute was the territory around the 38th parallel. Before the war, the 38th parallel marked the official line of demarcation between the
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RUNNING HEAD: THE KOREAN WAR two countries despite all the fighting and bloodshed, yet the same line marks the division between the two countries today. Basically, the reason why Canada sent their forces to fight is because the UN had to do something, take a side on the war. The USA forces were really damaged, so the UN order that South Korea needed help, so more prepared troops from 15 different countries were sent to war. Along with the Canadians, the Americans got the help of Australia, Belgium, Colombia, the Philippines, France, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, Union of South Africa, Ethiopia, Turkey and Thailand. Canadian Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent reacted slowly to the invasion of Korea. However, some members of his cabinet, especially Foreign Minister Lester B. Pearson, thought the Communist challenge could not be ignored. The Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) had just been formed to defend Western Europe from communist aggression. Under pressure from Pearson and others in the Cabinet of Canada and Washington, London and the UN, not to mention a large number of Canadians, St Laurent finally decided that Canada first sent three warships to Korea, then an air transport squadron, and finally, in August, a new Canadian infantry brigade, about 5,000 troops.(United Nations Command, 2009) The brigade was made mainly of veterans of the Second World War and largely equipped with British-style weapons, also from World War II. It was thought that this would make it easier to create the new brigade of nowhere.The brigade trained at Fort Lewis, Washington, in the United States in the fall and winter of 1950 and 1951. The entire brigade did not reach Korea until the spring of 1951.
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RUNNING HEAD: THE KOREAN WAR Part of the brigade, the second light Infantry Battalion Princess Patricia, initially left from western Canada. However, in late November, Communist China sent thousands of "volunteers" to join the forces of North Korea and the UN had to stumble back to the south of the peninsula. When the Canadian infantry battalion arrived in Korea, the UN was in full retreat and UN military leaders wanted to use it to turn the war in their favor. However, the soldiers were not yet fully formed and were not yet ready for battle. Princess Patricia's commander, Lieutenant Colonel Jim Stone, refused to allow their soldiers were in front until they were ready to believe. He got his way and the battalion did not join the battle in the first two months. When they did, took part in a UN counterattack against Chinese Communist forces sent back across the 38th parallel. In April 1951, the men of Princess Patricia, along with Australian and U.S. troops took positions around the village of Kapyong for another major Chinese attack. Soldiers were surrounded and greatly outnumbered during the night battle, but stood firm and held off the Chinese. Members of the Princess Patricia were awarded by the President of the U.S.(Canad, 2013) CONCLUSION: The conflict surrounding this war is based on the different types of governments that govern them. In 1949 a UN plan stated that elections were made throughout, the fact that only occurred in the south. There he organized the Republic of Korea, recognized by the West, while in the North established a Communist state. In our team we think the big reason is true confrontation is hunger for power and enlarge their territory but to unleash one of the worst massacres since the Second World War.
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RUNNING HEAD: THE KOREAN WAR After the Second World War and that Japan withdrew, the UN declared the 38th parallel as the border between North Korea and South. The above mentioned countries had to make choices, only made in South Korea. All this was triggered when the October 1, 1949 when China won its communist revolution. Be event altered throughout Asia and Stalin, hurt by his past losses, agreed that North Korea attacked South Korea. The June 25, 1950 the Kim Il Sung troops crossed the 38th parallel established as the border, but to the surprise of Stalin the U.S. government acted quickly and with adequate measures. U.S. asked the UN permission to use Pacific troops to help South Korea to regain their lost territory and was accepted. General MacArthur wanted his ambition for more territory than it should but Ruman President dismissed him and preferred to limit the campaign to regain lost territory. The deaths were of more than one million North Koreans and more than half a million of South Korea and USA. From then conducted negotiations that culminated with a few international arrangements, but that perpetuated the division of the Korean nation. Also, the Korean War accelerated the arms race even more, the fact that high-risk put life on Earth. We believe that this war was the aftermath of the Second World War that formal UN act was correct and that perhaps was wrong to send to the U.S. because it was about to explode another massive war. He was the first major challenge of the UN and also although it was a great success acted with professionalism and for the sake of world peace.

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