Marked Seoul

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

The Korean War

North Korea invaded the South in June 1950. United Nations forces, led by the United States and including Britain, fought North Korean and Chinese armies until an armistice in 1953. No peace treaty has been signed.

Place
Seoul · Inchon · The Imjin river · PanmunjomAsia
Laid out as
A warTwo sides, a front line, and the turns the fighting took.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

South Korea and United Nations forces, led by the United States

  1. IA divided country
  2. IIThe invasion
  3. IIIInchon
  4. IVChina enters
  5. VStalemate
  6. VIThe armistice and the DMZ

North Korea and China, supplied by the Soviet Union

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Kim Il Sung
  • Syngman Rhee
  • Douglas MacArthur

Objects

  • The armistice agreement

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1950 to 1953. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?