korean war

In Cairo Conference during WWII the Americans, not wanting the French to return to Indochina, had offered Chiang entire control of French Indochina, but he deliberately withheld his soldiers from occupying Vietnam since he was going to use them to fight the communists inside China. The was...

In 1952, the incumbent Democratic Party was facing an uphill contest in that year's election. They had been in power for going on 20 years and were facing an electorate that was increasingly tired of them. While they had managed to maintain control of both chambers of Congress in 1950, by 1952...

So the other weekend I watched a documentary on the French batallion in Korea who, despite definitely not being France's best, still managed to awe the Americans. They arrived right as the Chinese started flooding across the Yalu, and notoriously managed to hold four Chinese divisions with a...

I don’t know where I would find this so sorry I don’t have a good source for the event. But according (some guy) during his time in Korea with the US military. South Korean I Corps commander had had enough of the provocation and prepared to march north. Without telling anybody. As you know...

On November 20th, 1950, the US backed South Korea beat the communist north. In just a few months the tide of the war had completely reversed. North Korea alone couldn't stand up to the UN, and China had decided to stay out of war Truman's approval rating spiked, and this combined with a...

What if instead having a Korean peninsula divided between a communist North and capitalist South, we had an entirely communist Korea dominated by the USSR? I've seen a few threads like this, but they were mostly focused on what Korea itself would be like, as opposed to the geopolitical calculus...

(The Rise of the Second Imperial Kingdom) With Meiji's peace agreement with the US and the Western world established, and with most of the colonies now independent. The Imperial House would find itself in a new political climate. Since the Kenmu Restoration had eliminated the threat of civil...

The most important political leader Brazil had in the 20th century, Getúlio Vargas was president from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1954. His first administration was marked by a combination of multiple achievements, such as laws establishing workers' rights and the construction of the Companhia...

Exactly what it says on the tin. What if Dwight D Eisenhower, rather than go into politics, opted to remain a general and then somehow ended up in MacArthur's place during the Korean War (maybe Douglas goes into politics early) My guess is that he handles the situation better than MacArthur...

This is an alternate timeline in which a bunch of conferences, treaties, wars, and other stuff that defined the Cold War are done differently (however unrealistic they may be), causing a snowball effect that would make the Cold War go very differently (and also very wacky). This is my first big...

Reading up on the Blue House Raid attempt got me thinking that if successful (resulting in the death of Park Chung-Hee that is), aside from South Korea possibly retaliating by doing the same towards Kim Il-Sung, how will it lead to a resumption of hostilities in the Korean peninsula? And if so...

To be more specific i was wondering if the UN troops had dug in after the frankly pretty bad proformance of the first phase offensive on their part (the battles of unsan and onjong), whether would have allowed them to hold there positions unlike in OTL. By my counting the UN would have had...

So about seven years ago, Turtledove started writing the "Hot War" trilogy. The premise was that MacArthur got his way and used his nuclear weapons on the Chinese-Korean border, sparking off WW3. Now I haven't read the books since they first came out, and even then I have yet to read the final...

Basic POD is that the Soviets put someone else other than Kim in charge of North Korea. What other options are there and how would their leadership affect the development of North Korea compared to OTL?

So I what ask here is what if North Korea had managed to be still less lucky even with Chinese help and thus lost their provinces of Hwanghae and Kangwon provinces to South Korea in the Korean War? What Syngman Rhee would do to these two provinces? Would Ri Chun-hee even have survived and if so...

I'm watching a documentary on the development of the H-bomb called "Race for the Superbomb" and it mentioned how Stalin's death basically enabled the armistice to end active hostilities in the Korean War. Now what I'm wondering is how would the war have gone gone if Stalin had managed to live...

This is the alternate history map to show the slightly large, imperative South Korea (Republic of Korea) if the city of Gaeseong remained under the South Korean administration near the DMZ border. The US, UN, and ROK military forces launched the massive counterattacks north of Imjin River around...

Let’s say the Chinese offensive in the Korean War is a complete disaster and the US/UN coalition annihilates them and holds serve in Korea. How does the US domestic political landscape change? Truman would be a sure fire victory in 1952 as I don’t think Eisenhower would run in this scenario...

It is no secret that Korea and Japan (or rather both Koreas and Japan) have a lot of beef with each other since the Imjin War in the late 16th century and it seems like they'll remain rivals for years, even decades, but what if they became rivals on par with Saudi Arabia vs. Iran in that they...

What if the US won the Korean War? Or if the Korean War never even happened? How would things change (other than no North Korea)? How would a united Korea change pop culture as we know it?