POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
KOREAS PARTITION
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Question
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North Korean attempts to unify the peninsula challenged the U.S. policy of containment
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Communities in Korea needed humanitarian aid due to a famine
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International groups needed help investigating North Korean officials charged with corruption
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Democratic reformers sought help from the U.S. military to overthrow dictatorial regimes in Korea
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Detailed explanation-1: -North Korean attempts to unify the peninsula challenged the U.S. policy of containment. Communities in Korea needed humanitarian aid due to a famine. International groups needed help investigating North Korean officials charged with corruption.
Detailed explanation-2: -The main U.S. goal in the Southeast Asia War was to protect South Vietnam–initially from a local communist insurgency and later from conquest by communist North Vietnam. The U.S. also hoped to prevent the spread of communism to other nearby countries.
Detailed explanation-3: -On June 27, 1950, President Truman ordered U.S. forces to South Korea to repulse the North’s invasion. “Democrats needed to look tough on communism, ” Kim says. “Truman used Korea to send a message that the U.S. will contain communism and come to the aid of their allies.”
Detailed explanation-4: -The United States intervened in Korea and Vietnam primarily for three reasons: the politics of prestige, the politics of containment, and the peculiar American approach to foreign affairs. in the United States decision to intervene in Korea and Vietnam. determination. * Truman Memoirs, 2:333.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.