History of Korea

• June 25:North Korean forces cross the thrity-eighth parallel. The United Nations, in absence of U.S.S.R adopts a resolution calling for the North Korean forces to the parallel
• June 27: President Truman orders air and sea services to help South Korean forces.
• June 29: North Korean Army captures Seoul
• June 30:Truman orders U.S ground troops to Korean and naval blockade of Korean of Korean coast. Authorization of U.S Air force to proceed in boming North Korea
• July 1:First U.S combat troops arrive on Korea
• July4: U.S troops meet North Korean Army in Osan but forced to retreat
• July7: Douglas MacArthur named Supreme U.N commander
• July 15: North Korean Army cross Kum River
• July 21: U.S troops fight out of burning Taejon
• August 1: Second U.S infantry division reaches Korea
• August 8: North Korean Army breach Naktong River perimeter line
• August 15:U.N troops repel two attacks along Naktong
• September 3:North Korean Army offensive threatens Taeju
• September 15: U.S X Corps makes a successful assault on Inchon, enabling them to break through the Pusan perimeter and push toward the 38th-parallel
• September 26: Southern units retake Seoul
• October 1: South Korean troops cross 38th parallel
• October 8:Mao Tse Tung secretly orders Chinese "volunteers" into Korea
• October 18: Southern units occupy Hamnung and Hungnam
• October 19: Eighth Army seizes Pyongyang
• October 25: Chinese forces fight with ROK troops less than 40 miles south of the Yalu River
• October 27:Eighth Army halted by Chinese forces
• October 29: X Corps haled by Chinese forces in northeast
• November 3: U.S 25th Division driven back from Yalu River
• November 6: MacArthur charges Chinese with unlawful aggression
• November 8:Air battle over Sinuiji
• November 12:U.S Army 3rd Division arrives in Korea
• November 16:Truman reassures China and other nations that he has never had any intention of creating hostilities toward China
• November 26:Chinese counterattack
• November 27:Eighth Army halted by Chinese forces
• December 1: Eighth Army and X Corps withdrawing in face of Chinese offensive
• December 5: U.S and U.N forces withdraw from Pyongyang. Northern forces reoccupy Pyongyang
• December 9:X Corps withdrawal from Wonsan
• December 11: X Corps withdrawal from Hungnam
• December 22: China rejects seize-fire
• December 25: Northern forces re-crosses 38th parallel
• December 27:Lietenant General Matthew Ridgway takes over command of ground forces in Korea

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• January 1: Communist offensive begins
• January 4: U.S and U.N forces evacuate Seoul
• January 7: Communist forces enter Wonju
• January 13: U.S delegation votes for U.N cease-fire resolution
• January 17: Chinese rejects cease-fire proposal
• February 10: Eighth Army retakes Inchon and Kimpo airfield
• February 15: Chinese defeated at Chipyong-ni
• February 21: U.S launches "Operation Killer"
• March 13: Communist start to withdraw across all fronts
• March 15: Eighth Army retakes Seoul
• March 21: Eighth Army retakes Chunchon
• April 3:Eighth Army crosses the thrity eighth parallel
• April 11: Truman relieves MacArthur as U.N commander and appoints Ridway to succeed him
• April 22: Northern forces begin their offensive
• May 1: First phase of Chinese offensive halted north of Seoul
• May 28: Eighth Army takes Hwachon and Inje
• June 12: Eighth Army controls "Iron Triangle"
• July 1: Kim Il Sung and Peng Teh-huai, commander of the Chinese "volunteers" agree to begin armistice discussion
• July 10: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong
• August 23: Communist suspend negotiation because of U.N forces violation of neutral zone at Kaesong
• October 25: Cease-fire discussions resume at Panmunjom

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• January-April 7:Disorder in prison camps
• April 19:U.N delegation tells the Communist that only 70,000 out of 132,000 POWs are will to return home
• May 2: North Korea rejects U.N proposals over the the issue of voluntary repatriation
• May 7: Koje prisoners hold General Dodd hostage. Both side announce a stalmate over POW issue
• May 12: General Mark Clark succeeds Ridway
• June 23: U.S bomb Yalu River power installations to induce a more cooperative attitude towards the negotiation talks
• August 29: Heaviest air raids on Pyongyang
• November 4: Eisenhower elected as President

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• March 30: Communist agree and propose that prisoners unwilling to be repatriated to be transferred to a neutral state
• April 26: Armistice negotiations resume
• May 28: The U.S and U.N negotiating team presents its final terms and threatens to break off the talks if these are rejected. Northern forces attack outpose of U.S 25th Division
• June 8: POW issue settled on the principle of voluntary repatriation
• June 15-30: Northern forces attack U.S I Corps
• June 17: Revised demarcation line settled President Rhee orders South Korean guards to release North Korean prisoners in Pusan camps.
• July 27: Armistice signed at Panmunjom

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