The Korean War began in 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea in an attempt to reunite the two halves of the peninsula under one communist government. It was not a civil war, and neither was it simply a war to gain more land, since the two sides shared a common past, and in some ways, a common identity. The Korean War lasted just over three years, from June 1950 through July 1953, but it was one of the most important early events of the Cold War. This conflict, between the United States and the Soviet Union, encompassed the entire world in an ideological battle between two opposing economic systems – communism and capitalism – and their accompanying cultures and ways of life. The United States and the Soviet Union involved themselves directly or indirectly in every conflict between their two respective economic systems. Therefore, the Korean War was not just a battle over sovereignty of the Korean Peninsula.

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In Part 1 Dan Brady and Johnny Smith cover the perfect storm of events that lead to all out war in 1950

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