Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-29301999-20180812021722

September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, Britain and France declared war on Hitler's Nazi Germany state in retaliation. beginning World War II. On September 17, Soviet troops invaded Poland from the east. Over the next six years, the conflict would take more lives and destroy more land and take more innocent lives around the globe than any previous war. The devastation of the Great War (as World War I was known at the time) had greatly destabilized Europe, and in many respects World War II grew out of issues left unresolved by that earlier conflict. In particular, political and economic instability in Germany, and lingering resentment over the harsh terms imposed by the Versailles Treaty, fueled the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi) Party.

On June 25, 1950, The Korean War began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded South Korea. As Kim Il-sung's North Korean army, armed with Soviet tanks, quickly overran South Korea, the United States came to South Korea's aid.

General Douglas MacArthur, who had been overseeing the occupation of Japan, commanded the US forces which now began to hold off the North Koreans at Pusan, at the southernmost tip of Korea. With the US, UN, and South Korean (ROK) forces pinned against the sea at Pusan, MacArthur lead a daring assault on Inchon, a port on the western coast of Korea. Having made this landing, MacArthur crushed the North Korean army in a pincer movement and recaptured Seoul, the capital of South Korea. Instead of being satisfied with his rapid reconquest of South Korea, MacArthur crossed the 38TH Parallel and pursued the North Korean army all the way to the northernmost provinces of North Korea. Afraid that the US was interested in taking North Korea as a base for operations against Manchuria, the People's Republic of China secretly sent an army across the Yalu River. This Chinese army attacked the US forces. 