MILITARY TECHNOLOGIES TECHNOLOGY DURING THE KOREAN WAR HEATHER C HUDAK Checkerboard Library An Imprint of Abdo Publishing abdopublishing com
1 A DIVIDING LINE The Korean War was three years of battle sparked by a political conflict that still exists This war actually began at the close of another World War II ended in defeat for Germany and Japan in 1945 At the time Japan ruled Korea The peace terms called for Japan to give up control of Korea The United States and the Soviet Union were to temporarily occupy Korea Both nations agreed to a dividing line across Korea at the 38th parallel The Soviet Union supervised land north of the line The United States supervised land south of the line US troops travel through Korea on September 8 1945 days after the end of World War II
MANCHURIA Vladivostok Mukden NORTH KOREA Peiping Pusan SOUTH KOREA Yellow Mill Osaka Nagasaki An August 1950 map shows the 38th parallel The Soviet Union supported separating North Korea communism Communist dictator and South Korea Kim Il Sung took power in North Korea The United States had a capitalist form of
