{"id":1026,"date":"2018-12-19T21:54:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T21:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2018-12-20T23:03:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T23:03:14","slug":"united-states-marines-land-at-incheon-south-korea-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/united-states-marines-land-at-incheon-south-korea-1950\/","title":{"rendered":"United States Marines Land at Incheon, South Korea (1950)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first instance in which the United States executed the &#8220;containment policy&#8221; with military action, United States Marines land in South Korea, following North Korea&#8217;s advance into South Korea. President Truman, through the War Powers Act, deployed American forces to the Korean Peninsula, to aid the largely-overrun South Korean forces. America&#8217;s intervention resulted in North and South Korea being divided at the 38th Parallel. Thus, the spread of communism was halted in Korea.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1033\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/800px-Lopez_scaling_seawall-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/800px-Lopez_scaling_seawall-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/800px-Lopez_scaling_seawall-768x962.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/800px-Lopez_scaling_seawall-676x847.jpg 676w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/800px-Lopez_scaling_seawall.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first instance in which the United States executed the &#8220;containment policy&#8221; with military action, United States Marines land in South Korea, following North Korea&#8217;s advance into South Korea. President&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/united-states-marines-land-at-incheon-south-korea-1950\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180689],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kevin-potocki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}