Morning about the wars causes and about sort of how the three years that most americans think of when they think of the korean war fit into a longer and a broader history. For our second part, well try to focus in a little bit on how the war played out in the lives of the individuals that were affected by it. As war in south and north korea, it ravaged the homes of millions, sometimes more than once. And we were talking about the yo yo effect of the war means war moves through your home once and then then again. It drew 6 million military personnel, not only from both north and south korea, but also from china, the United States, the soviet union and other United Nations countries, including britain, canada, australia, france, the netherlands and many others. More than two and a half Million People lost their lives, and millions more found their lives forever changed by the war. So im honored to introduce four historians whose work centers, individuals in their in the history of war an
We spent some time talking this morning about the wars causes and about sort of how the three years that most americans think of when they think of the korean war fit into a longer and a broader history. For our second part, well try to focus in a little bit on how the war played out in the lives of the individuals that were affected by it. As war in south and north korea, it ravaged the homes of millions, sometimes more than once. And we were talking about the yo yo effect of the war means war moves through your home once and then then again. It drew 6 million military personnel, not only from both north and south korea, but also from china, the United States, the soviet union and other United Nations countries, including britain, canada, australia, france, the netherlands and many others. More than two and a half Million People lost their lives, and millions more found their lives forever changed by the war. So im honored to introduce four historians whose work centers, individuals i
Escalating into war between the United States and the soviet union. Thats where i think mao comes in and plays a role. So if the war goes badly for north korea, its going to be china, not the soviet union is directly in the firing line, which course is what happens in octobernovember. So china in that sense or deserves that function, helps to keep the war limited. We dont end up with a soviet us world war three, 1950 or 51. Lets our panelists. We spent some time talking this morning about the wars causes and about sort of how the three years that most americans think of when they think of the korean war fit into a longer and a broader history. For our second part, well try to focus in a little bit on how the war played out in the lives of the individuals that were affected by it. As war in south and north korea, it ravaged the homes of millions, sometimes more than once. And we were talking about the yo yo effect of the war means war moves through your home once and then then again. It
We spent some time talking this morning about the wars causes and about sort of how the three years that most americans think of when they think of the korean war fit into a longer and a broader history. For our second part, well try to focus in a little bit on how the war played out in the lives of the individuals that were affected by it. As war in south and north korea, it ravaged the homes of millions, sometimes more than once. And we were talking about the yo yo effect of the war means war moves through your home once and then then again. It drew 6 million military personnel, not only from both north and south korea, but also from china, the United States, the soviet union and other United Nations countries, including britain, canada, australia, france, the netherlands and many others. More than two and a half Million People lost their lives, and millions more found their lives forever changed by the war. So im honored to introduce four historians whose work centers, individuals i
Forgotten war, but it was the first talk or in the cold war, in which the United States really did go to war with communist enemies. In this case, north korea and the volunteer army in china. And because it really does impact our world today. Korea is one of our most important allies, trading partners, and so our involvement in korea was a very important moment. Vietnam is very important for its role in activism and in getting many of the younger people in the United States involved in politics, involved in protest. And it demonstrates that the United States government is very much influenced by his constituents and responses to it. But we are going to focus on the environment of both these places. And we are going to start here with korea. So, that means land of the morning calm what koreans believe is the phrase that best captures the essence of the peninsula. The war we are going to talk about is the fighting between 19509053. For the allied troops, the war went on much longer than