Korean War facts

• Chiang Kai-shek led the nationalist party to Taiwan, after they lost to Mao Zedong and the communists.
• USSR controlled korea north of the 38th parallel.
  
• Ike promised to end the war as soon as possible and negotiated with the USSR and privately warned the that he would use nuclear weapons.
  
• China entered war when the US had gotten almost to the Korean-Chinese border.
  
• Douglass McArthur was in charge of all UN forces.
• Douglass MacArthur was fired because he wanted to bomb china to stop their involvement, but Truman didn't approve and thought it would cause world war, so MacArthur was fired.
• War was very unpopular and Truman didn't run for president again. Ike was elected
• War was never declared by either sides.
• Cease fired ended fighting and war ended in stalemate.
• Americans were upset about war, because it solved nothing.