Korean War

The Korean War was a military conflict between the North and South in the Republic of Korea. The war began on June 25, 1950. The Korean peninsula, prior to the end of World War II was ruled by Japan. After the defeat of Japan in 1945 the peninsula was divided between North and South at the 38th parallel. The United States troops occupying the southern part of Korea, and the Soviet troops occupying the northern parts. Although negotiations about becoming one again were going on, the tension increased between the north and the south. Then it turned into open warfare and the North Korean forces invaded South Korea. The United States and United Nations armies came to aid the South Koreans in repelling the invasion. A United Nations offensive repelled the North Koreans almost to the Yalu River, as a result the PCK or Peoples Republic of China came to the aid of the communist north. With China involved in the war now, it took on a more dangerous tone. In mid-summer of 1950 the UN invasion at Inchon hurt the North Korean war machine. Within the next two months UN armies punched through North Korea. Victory was in sight. But then in a number of brutal battles fought in brutally cold weather conditions the UN was thrown back midway into South Korea. But a UN counter-offensive in the beginning of the year forced the Chinese army to retreat to the north. The War seemed to be a stalemate between the North and South. Many lives on both sides were lost with ever little gains to show for it. I think that since this war was between North and South Korea, no other countries should of took part in it. Many countries were involved in the Korean War besides North and South Korea. The three big countries that took part were the United States, Soviet Union and China. The reason the United States came in was, once North Korean troops invaded the South, Truman thought that it would be right to take up the opportunity to defend a non communist group from invasion by a communist group. They were determined to not "loose" another country to communism. The North Koreans had the aid of the Chinese Army that was thought to be back by Communist Russia. Tanks, Guns and ammunition were thought to be supplied by Russia to the invading Chinese. I feel that the United States should of not took part in this war. It is not worth risking American soldiers lives in a war that is suppose to be between North and South Korea. Maybe communism would of worked in Korea? China on the other hand had no right to be there also. China really did not have a reason to take part in this war. They only wanted to keep a safe zone so that no countries would interrupt there internal reconstruction to communism. To me i think they are just fighting for there own good and it is useless to everyone else, so they should not have even took part in the Korean War in the first place. I think it would of been better if these countries did not take part in this war, they would have all benefited and not as many lives would of been lost.

Major League Baseball Being Played During World War II

During the time of World War II everyone tried to contribute and help toward the war. Even women helped serve and created "The Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron". All Americas resources and money went out to try and help with the war. World War II cost the United States more than 400,000 deaths. This war brought tons of married women into the work force, and changed the nations minority groups drastically. Also during the time of World War II Major League Baseball was a big thing to Americans, and the players got paid big money to play. Many people thought how are people going to play baseball with this war going on? One man named Frank Frisch said " can you imagine trying to get a baseball club in shape in this kind of weather?". There was a big controversy of whether or not Major League Baseball should be played or not. Another man by the last name of Bradley said " It's too grand of a game to be turned into a farce". I think that during this time with the war going on and everything else Major League Baseball should have just taken a break and started up again once the war was over. I feel that instead of paying all this money to the players they should have put it to the war and anything that the country needed at the time. I especially think that major league baseball shouldn't of been played because more than 60% of the players who were on starting line ups the year before, were out the next year due to the war. Also many other non starting players were in the armed forces and were unable to play. Bradley again said " If I can't present baseball of high quality I'll close my park". I fully agree with this statement because if baseball is going to be played it should be at its best and during a prime time where people can actually watch and enjoy it. Because of the war training camps had to be moved and some teams even had to practice in gyms. Many coaches said when their teams practiced in the gyms all players wanted to do was play basketball and no one even focused on the baseball training. All natural resources, such as gasoline, rubber for tires, natural gas and electricity should have been saved and given to the troops. Instead it was use to fly players to different things and gas was used in buses to also transport players. The U.S Navy was sending targets to the Marshall Islands and as a result they had to post pone spring training to allow the players in combat to remain a little longer at their jobs. It also was dangerous to play ball at this time because of the broadcasting. Broadcasts of the game were relayed over seas by the armed forces. Announcers had to be extra careful about what they said so they wouldn't give any sort of clues to the enemy. This is just another reason why baseball should not be being played during this time because, if a broadcaster were to say something wrong such bad outcomes could fire onto the United States. It wouldn't of been hard to stop playing during this time and it would be easy for them to start everything back up after the war was over. When our country declares and is committed to war, all of our countries assets should go to this cause.