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The Korean war began on Sunday, June 25, 1950. This marked the first major stand off of the Cold War. A period of extreme tension between the United States and the Soviet Union that nearly resulted in a nuclear war. Most people today don’t remember it and thus it is called “the forgotten war”. It was a shame because it was not something to be forgotten. Nearly 3 million American, British, Chinese, and Korean lives were lost in the conflict. It was also the first major battle where helicopters became the newest weapon to change the way wars were fought. It was also the event that really tipped the scales and brought the US and it’s people from distrusting Communism, to outright hating it and expecting a full fledged war. So here are the three main questions I will answer. Why was the Korean war forgotten? Why should it not have been forgotten? And, how was it the first major step to a series of proxy battles and political tension that could have ended with nuclear catastrophe?