Operation Blacklist Forty

Operation Blacklist Forty
	Part of the aftermath of World War II and the Cold War
Date	September 4, 1945 – August 15, 1948; (2 years, 11 months, 1 week and 6 days)
Location	South Korea
Result	End of the Japanese rule of Korea; Establishment of the United States Military Government; Forceful dissolution of the People's Republic of Korea; Establishment of the Republic of Korea;
Belligerents
United States Military Government of Korea; Korean communists; (until 1947)	Empire of Japan People's Republic of Korea; (until 1946) Anti-trusteeship Movement; (since 1945) Korean communists; (since 1947)
Commanders and leaders
John R. Hodge; Dean Rusk; Charles H. Bonesteel III; Ahn Chai-hong; Kim Kyu-sik	Nobuyuki Abe ; Yoshio Kozuki Lyuh Woon-hyung Kim Ku; Syngman Rhee Pak Hon-yong; Kim Dal-sam
Units involved
XXIV Corps; National Security Guard; Kempeitai	Japanese Korean Army South Korea Labor Party; Communist Party of Korea

Operation Blacklist Forty was the codename for the United States occupation of Korea between 1945 and 1948. Following the end of World War II, US forces landed within the present-day South Korea to accept the surrender of the Japanese, and help create an independent and unified Korean government with the help of the Soviet Union, which occupied the present-day North Korea. However, when this effort proved unsuccessful, the United States and the Soviet Union both established their own friendly governments, resulting in the current division of the Korean Peninsula.