POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
THE MARSHALL PLAN
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USSR
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China
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Japan
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Detailed explanation-1: -An important area in which Soviet intervention was key in the Korean War was in the air-war. Soviet innovation in aircraft design, as well as the experience of many of its pilots following the Second World War meant that the ‘new’ states of China and North Korea were dependent on Soviet help in this area.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the run up to 1950, the dictator of North Korea had military support from the Soviet Union and from communist China. Kim II-sung, with permission from Joseph Stalin, ordered the People’s Korean Army to invade the south in June 1950. This invasion caught the world by surprise.
Detailed explanation-3: -On June 27, 1950, President Harry S. Truman announces that he is ordering U.S. air and naval forces to South Korea to aid the democratic nation in repulsing an invasion by communist North Korea.