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Three days after the United Nations Security Council voted to provide military assistance to South Korea, on July 1, 1950, President Harry S. Truman ordered US armed forces to assist in defending that nation from invading North Korean armies. This marked the official entry of the United States into the Korean War. Six days earlier, communist North Korean forces had invaded South Korea, catching troops off-guard. Over the next three years, the United States provided at least half of the U.N. ground forces in Korea and the vast majority of the air and sea forces used in the conflict against North Korea and, later, against communist China, which entered the war on the side of North Korea in late 1950. Nearly 55,000 Americans were killed in the war and over 100,000 were wounded. Cost estimates for the war ranged as high as $20 billion.
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