KOREAN WAR
YEARS: 1950-1953 | DEATHS: 2690000
The Korean War, from June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953, was a conflict between communist North and anti-communist South Korea. It was also a proxy war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Principal combatants were North and South Korea, the United States, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the People’s Republic of China, although many other nations sent troops under the aegis of the United Nations. The Soviet Union also supplied combat advisors and aircraft pilots, as well as arms, for the Chinese and North Korean troops. In U.S. parlance Korea was officially a police action, not a war.
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