POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
KOREAS PARTITION
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The USSR.
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The USA.
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The USSR and the USA.
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The UN.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the last days of the war, the U.S. proposed dividing the Korean peninsula into two occupation zones (a U.S. and Soviet one) with the 38th parallel as the dividing line. The Soviets accepted their proposal and agreed to divide Korea.
Detailed explanation-2: -Since U.S. policy toward Korea during World War II had aimed to prevent any single power’s domination of Korea, it may be reasonably concluded that the principal reason for the division was to stop the Soviet advance south of the 38th parallel.
Detailed explanation-3: -By 1949, both the United States and the USSR had withdrawn the majority of their troops from the Korean Peninsula.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Soviet Union also covertly supported North Korea. After three years of fighting, the war ended in a stalemate with the border between North and South Korea near where it had been at the war’s beginning.