POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
KOREAS PARTITION
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To stop North Korean aggression and restore peace to the region.
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To support North Korean aggression even if peace were threatened.
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Failure to act would allow the Soviet Union to spread its communism.
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Failure to act would allow the Soviet Union to spread democracy around the world.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Concerned that the Soviet Union and Communist China might have encouraged this invasion, President Harry S. Truman committed United States air, ground, and naval forces to the combined United Nations forces assisting the Republic of Korea in its defense.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -“The U.S. initially didn’t want to get involved in any kind of invasion. They didn’t want to get tangled up with North Korea, much less China or the Soviet Union, ” says Kim. Key events on the world stage caused the United States to change course. On August 29, 1949, the Soviets detonated their first atomic bomb.