The Partition of the Korean Peninsula

by Gerry Boehme

Book Overview

The Yalta Conference is best known for planning the division of Germany after Nazi surrender, but by drawing the Soviet Union into the Pacific theater of World War II, it also laid the groundwork for the partition of the Korean peninsula along the 38th parallel. Cold War tensions were high when the communist North invaded the capitalist South in 1950, setting off the Korean War, which ended in a stalemate and an unchanged border. This intriguing volume...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1502635798
• ISBN13: 9781502635792
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12