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__**Chinas involvment in the Korean war.**__ p2. By: Patrick China was a big problem for the United Nations during the Korean war. They slowed down the U.N.'s advances through North Korean territory. The worst part was that none of the U.N. generals thought that the Chinese would enter the war. China is what caused us to go into a stalemate in the Korean war, and maybe if we had just taken a little caution to China then we could have won the Korean war.

China became involved in the war in 1950. The reason that China came into the war was because they were scared of us. They knew that we preferred the old government (rather than the Communist government) from China, so they thought if we took over North Korea then we would try to get rid of the Communist government in China. This is why for China entered the war, out of fear.

On November 26, 1950 China sent 4 army regimes- about 130,000 men- over the Yalu river into North Korea to help. These units were very experienced because all of them had been in the Chinese army for 5 years. These units ripped through the ROK troops. None of the generals thought that China was much of a threat, so they were all shocked to find out that they were cutting through the ROK troops so easily.

Once China entered the war it all went down hill for the U.N. army. The Chinese troops would attack at night, and all of a sudden the ROK troops were awakened by loud yelling, and screaming. The troops would get out of bed a find that they were under attack, but since they were all sleepy they didn't stand a chance against the Chinese troops. This great strategy drove the ROK troops back to the 38th parallel were the war went into a stalemate.

China had a great influence in the Korean war. Without China North Korea would have been destroyed in the war. North Korea had been pushed back into the Northern part of the country, and they would have certainly gotten destroyed, but then China came in. The Chinese came in and destroyed the ROK troops. They pushed them all the way back to the 38th parallel. From that point on the war was a stalemate. The overall influence of China in the was that they stopped the ROK troops from taking over North Korea, and they also forced the war into a stalemate.
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I did my extra information on Mao Ze dong. He was the communist leader of China during the Korean war. He was born in 1893. He and 11 others founded the Chinese communist party in Shanghai. In the year 1934 he and his forces went on a six thousand mile trek to escape the extermination campaign by the nationalists which gave him a lot of popular support.
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Mao continued his great work after he defeated the nationalists in 1949. He started programs to help expand the agricultural and industrial production. After the failure of the Great Keap, Mao stepped down from the position as the chairman of the peoples Republic of China, but he still stayed as leader of the Chinese communist party. His great life ended in 1976 when he died. Even though he was a great leader of China he did a lot that was bad against the U.S. which is why he is not remembered in our country, but I think he deserves to be.

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