POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
KOREAS PARTITION
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threat of communism spreading throughout Asia
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need to prevent war between China and the Soviet Union
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demand by the United States for Korean natural resources
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desire to limit Japanese expansion
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Detailed explanation-1: -He argued that “communism has passed beyond the use of subversion to conquer independent nations and will now use armed invasion and war.” Truman’s statement suggests that he believed the attack by North Korea had been part of a larger plan by communist China and, by extension, the Soviet Union.
Detailed explanation-2: -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. This was probably the most important reason for America’s involvement in the war.
Detailed explanation-3: -The basic idea was that the American’s needed to prevent the first domino from falling (country turning to communism) in order to prevent the spread of communism. As such, historians now argue that the United States used the Domino Theory to justify its involvement in Korea, just as it did in the later Vietnam War.