Who was the major people in the Korean war?

Question

please leave some information by their name and a source.

thank you!

Answer 1

Hi  Ã¢Â™Â¥ÃÂ¼ÃŽÂ±ÃÂ¸Ã¢ÂˆÂ‚ιѕ♥i.

Your question is going to need a long answer, I hope that's OK.

Attlee

(b. Jan. 3, 1883, Putney, London, Eng.--d. Oct. 8, 1967, Westminster, London), British Labour Party leader from 1935 to 1955 and prime minister from July 26, 1945, to Oct. 26, 1951. He presided over the establishment of the welfare state in Great Britain and over the most important step--the granting of independence to India--in the conversion of the British Empire into the Commonwealth of Nations.  

                        ...........................................

MacArthur

(b. Jan. 26, 1880, Little Rock, Ark., U.S.--d. April 5, 1964, Washington, D.C.), U.S. general who commanded the Southwest Pacific Theatre in World War II, administered postwar Japan during the Allied occupation that followed, and led United Nations forces during the first nine months of the Korean War.

                                  ..................................

Ridgway

in full MATTHEW BUNKER RIDGWAY (b. March 3, 1895, Fort Monroe, Va., U.S.--d. July 26, 1993, Fox Chapel, near Pittsburgh, Pa.), U.S. Army officer who planned and executed the first major airborne assault in U.S. military history with the attack on Sicily (July 1943).



Truman

Harry S. Truman became the 33rd president of the United States following the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.  The transition from Vice-President to President was not an easy task for Truman.  World War II was coming to a close, but American troops were still stationed in Europe and the Pacific.  The citizens of the United States had to work hard to supply their Allies with aid amounting to nearly 90 billion dollars per year.

When Truman was a senator, he urged the Senate to form the Committee Investigating the National Defense Program (also known as the Truman Committee) to prevent federal waste from occurring during the World War II.  The committee proved to be a success ;it saved the government an estimated 15 billion dollars.  Later, Truman became the only legislator to make the list of ¡°the ten men who had made the greatest contributions to the war effort.¡±

During the early months of Truman¡¯s presidency, the creation of a new peace organization, the

United Nations, was under way.  Truman felt strongly about the United States becoming a member of this new organization.  

In 1945, the U.S. Senate approved of the U.N. charter. In 1950, when war broke out in Korea, Truman ordered U.S. forces to help the U.N. ¡°police action¡± in Korea.  He even declared a state of national emergency to warn the Unites States for what might turn out to become an all out war against Communism.

                               .......................................

Kim Il Sung

Kim Il-sung, original name KIM SONG JU (b. April 15, 1912, Man'gyondae, near P'yongyang, Korea [now in North Korea]--d. July 8, 1994, P'yongyang), communist leader of North Korea from 1948 until his death in 1994. He was the nation's premier from 1948 to 1972, chairman of its dominant Korean Workers (Communist) Party from 1949, and president and head of state from 1972.

Kim was the son of parents who fled to Manchuria in 1925 to escape the Japanese rule of Korea. He joined the Korean guerrilla resistance against the Japanese occupation in the 1930s and adopted the name of an earlier legendary Korean guerrilla fighter against the Japanese. Kim was noticed by the Soviet military authorities, who sent him to the Soviet Union for military and political training.

During World War II, Kim led a Korean contingent as a major in the Soviet Red Army. After the Japanese surrender in 1945, Korea was effectively divided between a Soviet-occupied northern half and a U.S.-supported southern half. At this time Kim returned with other Soviet-trained Koreans to establish a communist provisional government under Soviet auspices in what would become North Korea. He became the first premier of the newly formed Democratic People's Republic of Korea in 1948. Hoping to reunify Korea by force, Kim launched an invasion of South Korea in 1950, thereby igniting the Korean War. His attempt to extend his rule there was repelled by U.S. troops and other UN forces, however, and it was only through massive Chinese support that he was able to repel a subsequent invasion of North Korea by UN forces.

After the end of the Korean War in 1953, Kim crushed the remaining domestic opposition and eliminated his last rivals for power within North Korea's Communist Party. He became his country's absolute ruler and set about transforming North Korea into an austere, militaristic, and highly regimented society devoted to the twin goals of industrialization and the reunification of the Korean Peninsula under North Korean rule. Kim introduced a philosophy of juche, or "self-reliance," under which North Korea tried to develop its economy with little or no help from foreign countries. North Korea's state-run economy grew rapidly in the 1950s and '60s but eventually stagnated, with shortages of food occurring by the early '90s. The omnipresent personality cult sponsored by Kim was part of a highly effective propaganda system that enabled him to rule unchallenged for 46 years over one of the world's most isolated and repressive societies. In his foreign policy he cultivated close ties with both the Soviet Union and China and remained consistently hostile to South Korea and the United States.

While retaining control of the Korean Workers Party, Kim relinquished the office of premier and was elected president of North Korea in December 1972. In 1980 he raised his son Kim Chong Il to high posts in the party and the military, in effect designating the younger Kim as his heir.

                                ...........................................

Chiang Kai-Shek

  It could be said that Chiang Kai-Shek¡¯s ultimate goal was to create a powerful, unified China, free of foreign domination.  He is remembered not just as president and premier of the Chinese Republicand commander of the

Chinese Army, but as one of the most controversial leaders of his time.

In 1911, as a young man, Chiang joined the revolt that brought about the creation of the Chinese Republic.  He was a loyal follower of Doctor Sun Yat-Sen, father of the Chinese Republic.  Following Dr. Sun¡¯s death in 1925, Chiang gained power and status in the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party), and in 1926, became its leader.  Gen. Chiang then began a determined march to conquer all of China and to free it from Communist influences.  

In 1928, Chiang's army seized Peking, and Chiang became the head of the Republic of China.  Although Chiang was elected president of China in 1943 and was re-elected in 1948, he failed to promote economic and political development.

                                ......................................

Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong has been regarded as the  greatest of revolutionaries  in China.  However, his abilities as a politician failed to meet up to his potentials as a revolutionary figure.  In his youth, Mao served in the army for several months during the Revolution of 1911-1912.  As a student at Peking University, Mao became a member of the revolutionary May Fourth Movement.  

In 1921, Mao contributed to the founding of the Chinese Communist party.  Mao strongly believed that the peasant class held unlimited potential for making revolution.  The Communists and the Nationalists (headed by Chiang Kai-Shek) coexisted in a shaky relationship until the end of World War II.  In 1934, Mao and his supporters were driven out, but by 1935, the Communists and the Nationalists had to come together to fight the Japanese invasion.  

In 1949, the Communists emerged as the victors of a series of revolutions.  As the chairman of the People's Republic, Mao launched the Great Leap Forward, a program intended to bring about economic reforms.

However, the program had dire side effects, and Mao was forced to retreat.  Later, he launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which severely damaged the Communist party and the Chinese economy as well.

Sorry for the long answer but Your question needed one.

I hope this helps.

Good luck my friend,

CATHORIO.