First Korean Civil War

The First Korean Civil War was a conflict fought between the Republic of Korea and it's ally the United States of America, against the Workers' Party of Korea and it's ally the Socialist Soviet Republic of the Pacific, the war lasted from 1947 to 1951. The Communist rebels initially took up arms to oppose the United States Military Government in Korea, but it quickly became an ideological war against the right-wing government of Syngman Rhee.
Despite hoping for a swift victory from the start, the Americans and their Korean allies were unable to end the rebellion quickly, forcing the United States to yield control of the peninsula to a native, civilian government, hoping this would bring calm. Though initially it seemed to have some success in reducing the fighting, Syngman Rhee's brutal attempts to suppress what was left of the rebellion caused the conflict to boil-over once again.
Eventually the war came to an end with the Korean government defeating the Communist rebels, though many fled either north to the SSRP, or across the Yellow Sea to the People's Republic of China. Despite this victory, it left a sour taste in the mouths of many Koreans who had suffered at the governments hands and would lay the groundwork for the Second Korean Civil War.
Category:Conflicts
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