oct 19, 1950 - Chinese forces - The People's Volunteer Army - cross the Yalu river that borders North Korea and China and enter the Korean war
Description:
"What worries the Truman administration in the dismal winter of 1950-51, however, was not so much the prospect of national or global annihilation, but rather the possibility that American and South Korean forces could be wiped out by the hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops who were chasing them – there is no other word for it – back down the Korean peninsula" (Gaddis 2006, p. 58).Added to timeline:
Date:
oct 19, 1950
Now
~ 75 years ago