Veterans Plaza Korean Memorial - Longview, TX - Korean War Memorials on Waymarking.com

World War II divided Korea at the 38th parallel, into a Communist northern half and Democratic southern half. The Korean War began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea in 1950.

The United States intervened as part of a United Nations International Peace Keeping Force. In November, 1950, thousands of U.S. troops, mostly Marines, struggled to survive the coldest winter in over 100 years at the Chosin reservoir. The faced an overwhelming opposition of more than 120,000 Chinese troops.

By late 1952 the United States and the U.N. forces were making significant advances and General Douglas McCarthur planned on pushing into North Korea to the war. President Harry Truman refused to let McCarthur cross the 38th parallel into North Korea, fearing it would spark a nuclear war between the United States, China and Russia.

Instead, in 1953 a peace treaty was signed at Panmunjom that ened the Korean War, returning Korea to a divided status essentially the same as before the war.

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