Civil wars: Korean War, Civil war, North Yemen Civil War, Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Lithuanian Civil War, Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland - Tapa blanda

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 61. Chapters: Korean War, Civil war, North Yemen Civil War, Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Lithuanian Civil War, Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland, The Logic of Violence in Civil War, Historic Blenheim, Al-Wathbah, List of civil wars, Łódź insurrection, Civil war in the Republic of Ingushetia, Göktürk civil war, Sulla's civil wars, Grand Ecore, Louisiana, Bruce Conde, Wars of succession, Battle of Detern, Polish civil war, Colombian Civil War of 1876, Vietnamese Civil War. Excerpt: The Korean War (25 June 1950 - armistice signed 27 July 1953) was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China (PRC), with military material aid from the Soviet Union. The war was a result of the physical division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II. The Korean peninsula was ruled by Japan from 1910 until the end of World War II. Following the surrender of Japan in 1945, American administrators divided the peninsula along the 38th Parallel, with United States troops occupying the southern part and Soviet troops occupying the northern part. The failure to hold free elections throughout the Korean Peninsula in 1948 deepened the division between the two sides, and the North established a Communist government. The 38th Parallel increasingly became a political border between the two Koreas. Although reunification negotiations continued in the months preceding the war, tension intensified. Cross-border skirmishes and raids at the 38th Parallel persisted. The situation escalated into open warfare when North Korean forces invaded South Korea on 25 June 1950. It was the first significant armed conflict of the Cold War. The United Nations, particularly the United States, came to the aid of South Korea...