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The Fi t Mar e Division found it lf cut into five piece outnum red ten to one.
But the Ma nes were not quitter Fighting cou geo ly a inst e bitter North Korean winter as well as a inst the Red Chine armies, they fought their way out the trap. One oup marched two nights and a day through de ees low ro weather to defeat a Red C e unit e M es evacuated the rces, b n ng out their wounded, with only 7,500 cas lties as compared to 37,400 for the Communists. Four Red Chi nese armies were completely eliminated as effective fighting forces by this one Ma ne division
After this heroic march, the war ttled down and neither side ined any si i cant new territory. Truce talks opened at nmun m on Oct r 25, 1951, where it n me obvious that th sides were willing to let the undary tween North and uth Korea whe it had en when the war gan But the American negotiators insisted that pri ners of w on either side should not forced to retu to their homeland unle they wanted to go. The Red Chine would not a ee to this a vast ma rity of the Chine ldiers captured by the US a olutely re fused to retu to Red China At the me time, in spite of strenuous ef forts to brainwash and propagandi US sold rs, the Red Chin we unable to rsuade more t n a handful of their pri ners to rem n with the
The US would not back down on the p ner f-war issue. At last, in July 1953, the Communists gave in and si the ce treaty. M t of the Chine pri ners of war went to Taiwan
e Korean War was a high int of the Cold War and repre nted that whole stru le. Like the Cold War, the Korean War gan ca the U.S. did not take riously the Communist threat, but once it started the U.S. firmly opposed this a r ion and fought the mmunists to a standstill This was al the result of the Cold War as a whole, as neither side significantly increa d its te itory or its influence.
Anti ommunism in the Unit Stat
Meanwhile, a ries of events made it cle that Communism was al a threat within the United States. In 19 a committee of the Hou of Repre ntatives, called the Hou Un- erican Activities Committee (HUAC), gan a ries of hearings on Communist espionage in the United States government, dually uncovering the fact that a num r of mmunists or Communist sympathizers h held high itions in the
