POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
COLD WAR IN ASIA
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NATO air and naval forces blocked ships sailing to North Korea
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North Korean forces, with Soviet approval, invaded South Korea
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United Nations inattention allowed guerrillas to infiltrate South Korea
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Widespread anti-colonial riots forced the Korean government to begin the war
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Detailed explanation-1: -North Korea attacked South Korea on June 25, 1950, igniting the Korean War. Cold War assumptions governed the immediate reaction of US leaders, who instantly concluded that Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin had ordered the invasion as the first step in his plan for world conquest. “Communism, ” President Harry S.
Detailed explanation-2: -The causes of the Korean War (1950-1953) can be examined in two categories, ideological and political. Ideologically, the communist side, including the Soviet Union, China, and North Korea, desired to secure the Korean peninsula and incorporate it in a communist bloc.
Detailed explanation-3: -It provided material and medical services, as well as Soviet pilots and aircraft, most notably MiG-15 fighter jets, to aid the North Korean-Chinese forces against the United Nations Forces.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Soviets believed that the war was “an internal matter that the Koreans would [settle] among themselves.” They argued that North Korea’s leader Kim Il Sung hatched the invasion plan on his own, then pressed the Soviet Union for aid.