The Korean War Explained on Maps: Causes, Timeline, and Lasting Impact 

My grandfather Frank Finerfrock served in the Korean War with the US Navy. He was a weapon specialist. Love and miss you Poppy.

tldr: The Korean war was started by 2 outside nations using Koreans as proxies

Always found this war a bit perplexing but this helps a lot

My Dad was born in the United States in 1951, during the Korean war for South Korea

Phillipines helped on the war too

so...there's a lot here that is born out of American blind spots and inherent misunderstanding of the conflict between the two Koreas. First, When the Japanese Empire was defeated, the US viewed Korea as a victim of Japanese Imperialism but viewed Korea with high degree of mistrust. To that end, while the DPRK was organizing along its own nationalist groups vying for political primacy, populist movements gained tremendous ground and land reforms took place without the same level of violence seen during the Cultural Revolution. Meanwhile, the US instituted AMG, American Military Government, reinstalled many of the Korean collaborators who worked hand in hand with Japanese colonial administrators and the KNP, Korean National Police, consisted of 10,000 agents who were all formerly of the Japanese armed forces and many of the ROK Army's leadership served in the Japanese Army or even the Kwantung Army when Japan instituted the colonial holding Manchuquo. General Park Jung-hee, Korea's generalissimo who seized power in a coup in 1961 was an officer in the Kwantung Army. We say the war began in 1950, but the fact is the conflict between the Koreas was more or less a civil war that had began in the 1930s. There had been armed conflict all along the 38th parallel in 1949, most of the conflict instigated by ROK Army forces. ROK Army soldiers attacked Kaesong and multiple times meanwhile populist uprisings on Che-ju Island and Cholla in the southwest were blamed on DPRK and Soviet Russia despite there being no links, rather the uprisings and revolts were in response to Syngmun Rhee's authoritarian and tyrannical rule that adopted many of the brutal policies and practices the Japanese Imperialists imposed. We think of the Korean War as war of communist aggression limited to a 3 year period but the conflict has been much deeper and much longer than that and still goes on today.

Η μεγάλες δυνάμεις τους χώρισαν στα δύο μπήκαν απ'των βορρά Η μεν ενώ η δεν απ'των νότο Και έτσι έχουμε δύο ανεξάρτητα κράτη.

My grandpa fought in this war.. He helped the south, he lived a good life until dying from cancer.. He was a TRUE hero..

NEVER LET YOUR NEXT MOVE: south Korea is the strongest and we need more people like you💀

Filipinos help south Korea

Like a movie

Imagine not including Turkey among the countries helping South Korea. There's literally a movie about a Turkish soldier saving a South Korean orphan baby and adopting her

You search the Korean war formaly and honestly many things are gone in Korean war history is this video

😮😮😮

bro forgot about turkey

Can you do a video On Angola *Angola vs Portugal war of independence *Angola Civil war Socialist vs Capitalist

My vonstructive criticism is you gotta be more accurate with the maps (taiwan is shown as part of mao Zedong's china for example, and the border between north and south korea before the war is not the right shape in your map. Also, qhen shoeinf the territory changing hands during the initial phases of the war, paonting the area co trolled by each faction wpuldve been very illustrative.

100 years later….. nothing has changed! Can I just live my life in peace.

대한민국만세🇰🇷

I always thank for US that saved our country

The have many things are gone like the other nations in united nations are gone, like the Philippine army that help the south Korean in war, like turkeys army and others nations

Philippines why you didnit include

why did the states bail out

Guess which U.S President was the first to step foot into N.K?

Loved the abrupt ending after he asked if there'll ever be a future for the annexation of the 2 halves of the Korean peninsula

Respect and bless up

Real Talk

Distorted history.

Do one about Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹

Hey what about philippines he helped South Korea too

Great explanation keep it up 👍

How bias do you want the video to be: YES

It's CCP not CPC lol

🌐🌏🌍🌎🇵🇭🚩🏴💫🕊ono

居然是完整的中国地图

Who else is irritated by his pronunciation? Seoul is pronounced like 'soul' not 'sewel', Busan is pronounced more like 'poosan' not 'pyousan'.

First the US wanted to resolve conflict then their hunger grew and wanted to remove north korea permanently...typical imperialists..

You have Taiwan labeled and Chinese on your map 1:35