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Somebody ... | Wanted ... | But ... | So ... |

North Korea | To be able to unite both north Korea and south Korea under comunist power | The united Nations got involved and tried messing up their plans| Korean war started|

General MacArthur | Wanted to defeat North Korea| The North Koreans were to strong | Got permission to blind side Korea with an blind side attack and ended up trapping Korea with UN help|

President Truman |To keep Un troops away from the chinese border because he didnt want china to enter the war with Korea|Chinese entered the war because the troops on the border and it lasted longer than it was supposed to| Released MacArthur for violating orders|

China | Wanted no interfeerence with troops and the Korea , China Border | Troops were to close to the border and china entered the war| Sent 300,000 troops to assist North Korea|

United Nations | To put peace back between North Korea and south Korea | China was ready to enter the war and become allies with North Korea| Had to come up with a better plan to bring peece between Korea and South Korea|

How did General Douglas MacArthur react to the events in Korea? What was his stance on the Korean War?

General Douglas MacArthur was the leader of the UN troops. He took the UN

troops and attacked the North Korean forces from behind, trapping the North

Koreans between them and the UN forces on the border of china . He went against the united states rule and made china get involved in the war as well. Those actions made him loose his job and made the war last longer also lost half of his army.

How did President Truman respond to the events in Korea? What was his stance on the Korean War?

President Truman never wanted this war to start he wanted peace between North and south Korea. He assigned General MacArthur to lead the united states to keep peace but he ended up messing it up and getting china involved....