The Hungry Historian Chef Money

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"Korea is where the cold war found it's hot edges." - General Matthew RidgewayIn his previous episode, the Hungry Historian was able to guide you through the last years of the Korean War. In it, you learned of the stalemate, the armistice, and the terrible human cost of the war.This time around, the Hungry Historian tries to answer a question that has been on his mind since he started this series six episodes and three months ago:What is the overall legacy of the Korean War? On this epis...

"Old soldiers don't die. They just fade away..." - General Douglas MacArthur After starting off with a great deal of action early on, the Korean War would quickly wind down into a stalemate, but that doesn't mean that there wasn't any mire excitement left in the conflict. Join the Hungry Historian as he takes you through those tension filled years of the stalemate in Korea, which at times would become reminiscent of the action along the Western Front during World War I.From there, y...

“We’ve been looking for the enemy for some time now. We’ve finally found him. We’re surrounded. That simplifies things.” – Lewis “Chesty” Puller Welcome back to Part IV of the Hungry Historian's (somewhat) in-depth series on the Korean War. When we last spoke, war had officially broken out across the 38th peninsula, and the UN was trying to rally troops to stop the Communist horde driving from the North. After some early success, the North Koreans would be pushed back by the combine...

"If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another.” - President Harry TrumanThrough the first two episodes of this series, the Hungry Historian has set the scene for the moments and events that led to war in Korea being a possibility. This episode deals with the breakout of the war itself.June 25th, 1950, having been preceded by an artillery barrage, the North Korean People's Army drives South of the 38th parallel, thus invading the Republi...

"Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. " - Mao ZedongWelcome back for part two of the Hungry Historian's look at the Korean War. In the first episode, Chef Money briefly discussed the modern history of the Korean peninsula up until the end of the Second World War. In this episode, the Chef returns to walk you through the years in between the end of World War II and the breakout of war in Korea in the summer of 1950. You'll discover that it wasn't j...