Korean War Lessons

Dear Mr. Eisenhower,
There is numerous reasons of what the United States can learn from the war. The U.S.' aims was to drive North Koreans out of South Korea to prevent South Korea from going communist. The support of the UN helped tremendously because eighteen states provided troops or support of some kind, although most of the members in the UN were American, including the commander General Macarthur. The United States and United Nations exceeded their aims by driving North Korea beyond the 38th parallel in weeks, as well as advancing into North Korea, despite the warnings by China. China's leader Mao warned the UN that if they invaded North Korea that China would get involved in the world and they did just that.
General Macarthur should not gave been able to invade North Korea because it caused many problems which led to a great deal of US casualties. The Chinese were powerful and when they joined the North Korean troops they launched a very big attack. The soldiers were taught to hate Americans and they were avid supporters of communism, therefore they were not fond of American's and the ideas they brought to North Korea. Th soldiers pushed the UN back into South Korea and the fighting reached stalemate around the 38th parallel.
The United Nations advised the United states and General Macarthur not to attack China. Macarthur ignored the instructions set forth by the UN and threatened an attack on China, that is when Truman removed Macarthur from the position of commander and ordered him to return home. The military suffered 30,000 American lives and 4,500 other United Nation lives and a great deal of money was lost to the Korean war with tanks and war supplies.
The policy of containment worked to a minor extent because the UN and the US itself kept communism out of South Korea, Greece, and other southern European countries, but communism did take over many European countries, also known as the Satellite countries, which is the case as to why containment did not work as well as it was intended to. Stalin and the Soviet Union set up communist governments in many European countries and tried in many more but the policy of containment prevented them in doing so.