POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
KOREAS PARTITION
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Question
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The USSR needed an Asian country to establish its communist influence.
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China had become communist, so the USA wanted to prevent communism from spreading further.
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Korea was a military threat to both the USSR and the USA.
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The USSR had created its own nuclear bombs, so the USA needed Korea to maintain a balance of power.
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Detailed explanation-1: -America wanted not just to contain communism-they also wanted to prevent the domino effect. Truman was worried that if Korea fell, the next country to fall would be Japan, which was very important for American trade.
Detailed explanation-2: -South Korea has a long military alliance with the United States, aiding the U.S. in every war since the Vietnam War, and most recently during the Iraq War.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Soviet Union They provided diplomatic support, strategic and grand tactical planning, including the planning of the invasion of South Korea, and essential logistical support.
Detailed explanation-4: -The war reached international proportions in June 1950 when North Korea, supplied and advised by the Soviet Union, invaded the South. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal participant, joined the war on the side of the South Koreans, and the People’s Republic of China came to North Korea’s aid.