war between North and South Korea, 1950–1953
Documented facts
- Date
- 25 June 1950 (Gregorian) — 27 July 1953 (Gregorian)
- Precision
- Day
- Referenced location
- Korea Strait
- Source coordinates
- 34.5994°, 129.7967°
- Part of
- Cold War
Referenced participants
- South Korea ↗
- North Korea ↗
- United States ↗
- United Kingdom ↗
- Canada ↗
- Turkey ↗
- Australia ↗
- Ethiopia ↗
- Philippines ↗
- New Zealand ↗
- Thailand ↗
- Greece ↗
- France ↗
- Colombia ↗
- Belgium ↗
- South Africa ↗
- Netherlands ↗
- Luxembourg ↗
- People's Republic of China ↗
- Soviet Union ↗
Documented participation does not establish opposing sides. Alliances absent from the sources are not reconstructed.
People and command
- Joseph Stalin — documented participation · Source ↗
- Choe Hyon — documented participation · Source ↗
- Kim Il-sung — documented participation · Source ↗
- Dwight D. Eisenhower — documented participation · Source ↗
- Omar Bradley — documented participation · Source ↗
- Douglas MacArthur — documented participation · Source ↗
- Douglas MacArthur — documented participation · Source ↗
- Creighton Abrams — documented participation · Source ↗
- James A. Van Fleet — documented participation · Source ↗
- Reuben E. Jenkins — documented participation · Source ↗
- Wayne C. Smith — documented participation · Source ↗
- Mark W. Clark — documented participation · Source ↗
- Alberto Ruiz Novoa — documented participation · Source ↗
- Chung Il-kwon — documented participation · Source ↗
- Mao Zedong — documented participation · Source ↗
- William Westmoreland — documented participation · Source ↗
- Peter de la Billière — documented participation · Source ↗
- Fidel Ramos — documented participation · Source ↗
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