Sygnam Rhee: leader of South Korea: Sygnam Rhee was a Korean Nationalist who spent much of his adult life in the United States. When elections were held in South Korea Rhee was elected president. Once the gorilla raids began in South Korea the Rhee administration was increasingly weakened his army was in shambles, the economy was wrecked, and the Martial Law left him disliked and unpopular among his people this made South Korea an easy target.
Kim IL Sung: leader of North Korea. Kim IL Sung was a North Korean gorilla fighter during the Japanese occupation of Korea. He received training in the Soviet Union, where he officially became a Communist. When he became the leader of North Korea he automatically made plans to invade South Korea, he then went to Moscow and Beijing requesting aid to help build his army and permission to launch the attack. After the war Kim IL Sung established an isolationist policy ever sense North Korea Korea has become more and more isolated.
General Douglas MacArthur: Original commander of UN soldiers in Korea. General Douglas MacArthur was often remarked as a tactical genius, but also a rather egotistical man too. Even to the point that he was called "Mr.Prema-Dona" by president Truman he was fired in 1951 when he went to the press about issues regarding the Chinese intervention Truman had him fired.
Harry S Truman: President of the United States (during the Korean war). Harry Truman was president of the United Stated States from 1945-1953 he was the president during the early period of the Korean war, he took a lot of backlash from the firing of general MacArthur. To the point of some politicians calling for the president's impeachment. After his term was over in 1953 his position was taken by president Dwight D. Eisenhower (see Dwight D. Eisenhower below).
Dwight D Eisenhower Second President of the United States (Also during the Korean war): Dwight D. Eisenhower was the commanding general of US forces in World war II, who won the election in 1953. Soon after he managed negotiate a cease fire between North Korea and China, and South Korea and it's allies in the United Nations, this truce almost perfectly divided North and South Korea the same way they were before. After which a demilitarized zone (DMZ) which is a small track of land along the borders of the Koreas. This Zone still exhists today.
Mao Zedong: leader of China. Mao Zedong was the totalitarian dictator of the PRC (People's republic of China) after the overthrow of the capitalist government in China. At first he refused to help Kim Il Sung at the start of of the war (As he had his own plans to attack Taiwan an island country of the coast of Asia). However he ended up intervening later when UN forces crossed the Yalu river, his intervention carried the war on another 2 years, and resulted the loss of about 3 million casualties.
Joseph Stalin: leader of the USSR. Joseph Stalin was the Communist dictator of the USSR (more commonly known as the Soviet Union) sense world war II, ever focusing on his primary ambition, the death of the United States and the end of all capitalism. He was the the primary supplier of weapons and money for North Korea during the later and earlier stages of the Korean war. He was at first reluctant to allow the war to begin for fear of an intervention by America, until he was promised the defeat of Korea in less than a week.
Kim IL Sung: leader of North Korea. Kim IL Sung was a North Korean gorilla fighter during the Japanese occupation of Korea. He received training in the Soviet Union, where he officially became a Communist. When he became the leader of North Korea he automatically made plans to invade South Korea, he then went to Moscow and Beijing requesting aid to help build his army and permission to launch the attack. After the war Kim IL Sung established an isolationist policy ever sense North Korea Korea has become more and more isolated.
General Douglas MacArthur: Original commander of UN soldiers in Korea. General Douglas MacArthur was often remarked as a tactical genius, but also a rather egotistical man too. Even to the point that he was called "Mr.Prema-Dona" by president Truman he was fired in 1951 when he went to the press about issues regarding the Chinese intervention Truman had him fired.
Harry S Truman: President of the United States (during the Korean war). Harry Truman was president of the United Stated States from 1945-1953 he was the president during the early period of the Korean war, he took a lot of backlash from the firing of general MacArthur. To the point of some politicians calling for the president's impeachment. After his term was over in 1953 his position was taken by president Dwight D. Eisenhower (see Dwight D. Eisenhower below).
Dwight D Eisenhower Second President of the United States (Also during the Korean war): Dwight D. Eisenhower was the commanding general of US forces in World war II, who won the election in 1953. Soon after he managed negotiate a cease fire between North Korea and China, and South Korea and it's allies in the United Nations, this truce almost perfectly divided North and South Korea the same way they were before. After which a demilitarized zone (DMZ) which is a small track of land along the borders of the Koreas. This Zone still exhists today.
Mao Zedong: leader of China. Mao Zedong was the totalitarian dictator of the PRC (People's republic of China) after the overthrow of the capitalist government in China. At first he refused to help Kim Il Sung at the start of of the war (As he had his own plans to attack Taiwan an island country of the coast of Asia). However he ended up intervening later when UN forces crossed the Yalu river, his intervention carried the war on another 2 years, and resulted the loss of about 3 million casualties.
Joseph Stalin: leader of the USSR. Joseph Stalin was the Communist dictator of the USSR (more commonly known as the Soviet Union) sense world war II, ever focusing on his primary ambition, the death of the United States and the end of all capitalism. He was the the primary supplier of weapons and money for North Korea during the later and earlier stages of the Korean war. He was at first reluctant to allow the war to begin for fear of an intervention by America, until he was promised the defeat of Korea in less than a week.