Don't Know Much About History?

I was struck by a twitter post that went something like this: Year 2021 minus 50 years equals 1971.  And I'm adding the following: 1971 minus 50 years is 1921.  I was born in 1951, my mother was born in 1921 and my Dad was born in 1919.  Had they survived they would have been over 100 years old.

My parents ages, and my age might seem almost trivial but in a lot of ways the current events that they lived through and the current events that even I have lived through constitute a kind of history that is mind boggling in the amount of changes the world has gone through. 

 In 1950 the Korean War started when North Korea which had been divided into North and South Korea after WWII invaded South Korea.  In many ways it was a proxy war between the U.S.A. and Russia which had spheres of influence in South and North Korea and the real beginning of the "Cold War". It could also be considered a Civil War where both countries wanted to be united under North or South Korea control.

The war which ended in a standoff is much as it was with the countries still separated at the 38th Parallel.

General McArthur was successful at pushing back the North Koreans but over stepped going going further north and involving the Chinese in the conflict and proposing to using atomic weapons on Chinese forces that had backed North Korea which would have greatly expanded the war.

There was an Armistice agreed to on July 27, 1953.  There were an estimated 2.5 killed in the war.  North Korea is a hardcore dictatorship today.

It continues to develop its nuclear capabilities while neglecting its people.