POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
COLD WAR IN ASIA
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Question
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They made alliances with Korea in case Japan attacked.
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They supported different political systems in Korea.
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They fought a war to try to make Korea a colony.
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They allowed China to regain control of Korea.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The division of Korea into two halves had come at the end of World War II. The United States and the Soviet Union agreed to temporarily divide Korea and oversee the removal of Japanese forces. In August of 1945, the Soviet Union occupied Korea, which had been under Japan’s control since 1910.
Detailed explanation-2: -The agreement allowed the POWs to stay where they liked; drew a new boundary near the 38th parallel that gave South Korea an extra 1, 500 square miles of territory; and created a 2-mile-wide “demilitarized zone” that still exists today.
Detailed explanation-3: -Japanese rule over Korea ended on 15 August 1945 with the surrender of Japan in World War II. The armed forces of the United States and the Soviet Union subsequently occupied this region.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Korean Peninsula was finally liberated on Aug. 15, 1945. Three years later on the same day, an independent Korean government was established. While legislating the Act of National Holidays in 1949, Aug.