1 Index to the Naturalization Petitions of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Jul 1865-Sep 1906 2  ($) New York, Naturalization Records, 1882-1944  ($) Petitions for Naturalization of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1897-1944 ($)
The Korean War began on June 25, 1950, when North Korea, under the communist dictator Kim Il Sung, invaded the Republic of South Korea by sending more than 200,000 troops across the 38th Parallel which divided North from South.
Korean Conflict, 1950 - 1953. As the war against Japan approached its conclusion in the summer of 1945, the United States and Soviet Union divided the Korean Peninsula-which had been a colony of Japan since 1905-between them into two temporary protectorates.