The Korean War

by John Ziff

An early crisis in the Cold War, known as the period of U.S.-Soviet tensions, from 1947 until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, occurred in Korea, a country that had been divided at the end of the Second World War. In June 1950, the army of Communist North Korea invaded U.S.-supported South Korea. President Harry S. Truman committed American troops to defend South Korea, and the U.S. made up the largest part of a United Nations force in that country...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1422233561
• ISBN13: 9781422233566
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Mason Crest Publishers
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.3" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8