The Korean War, sometimes called the forgotten war, was the first of many proxy wars
between the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union. The US was at first very successful and pushed the North Koreans back near China. The Chinese began to feel threatened so they joined the war against the Americans eventually resulting in a stalemate.
The end of WWII left Korea split with a communist north and an anti-communist but not democratic south. Both leaders were awful and they committed many massacres and atrocities towards their people but the US didnt really care as long as the leader wasn’t communist.
The blinded fear of communism augmented the view of reality for the United States. Although this war was immensely expensive both in terms of money and human life, it's often forgotten in American history.
This is partly due to the fact that it was shadowed by the more famous and controversial Vietnam war which lasted much longer and arguably had a greater impact in shaping the publics view of the Cold War.
It also was directly preceded by World War II so its often fallen into the background of history, which I would ague is inconsequential to most Americans yet immensely significant.
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