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The Korean Armistice Agreement (Korean: 한국정전협정 / 조선정전협정; Chinese : 韓國停戰協定 / 朝鮮停戰協定) is an armistice that brought about a cessation of hostilities of the Korean War. It was signed by United States Army Lieutenant General William Harrison Jr. and General Mark W. Clark representing the United Nations ...
The Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was an armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula fought between North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea; DPRK) and South Korea (Republic of Korea; ROK) and their allies. North Korea was supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union, while South Korea was supported by the ...
The 70th anniversary of the Korean War, sometimes called “the Forgotten War” in the United States, is being met with calls for a formal end. 70 years later, Korean Americans are still working ...
The aftermath of the Korean War set the tone for Cold War tension between superpowers. The Korean War was important in the development of the Cold War, as it showed that the two superpowers, United States and Soviet Union, could fight a "limited war" in a third country. The "limited war" or "proxy war" strategy was a feature of conflicts such ...
When Dwight Eisenhower assumed the presidency in 1953, he had one immediate policy objective: to end the Korean War. In July of 1953 the war came to an end, with an uneasy stalemate. That the war ...
Read CNN’s Fast Facts about the Korean War. Although hostilities ceased in 1953, there has been no formal end to the war.
The Korean War era marked the first time that any form of student deferment had been used. During the Korean War, a student carrying at least 12 semester hours was spared until the end of his current semester. [49] Though the United States signed the Korean War Armistice on July 27, 1953, technology brought new promises and threats. American ...
On 18 February 1954, at the Berlin Conference, participants agreed that "the problem of restoring peace in Indochina will also be discussed at the Conference [on the Korean question] to which representatives of the United States, France, the United Kingdom, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Chinese People's Republic and other interested states will be invited."