THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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The cold war continued.
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The North and South were still divided.
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Both the North and South lost many lives.
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The United States removed all of its troops.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Both sides were willing to accept a ceasefire that maintained the 38th parallel boundary, but they could not agree on whether prisoners of war should be forcibly “repatriated.” (The Chinese and the North Koreans said yes; the United States said no.)
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: -A new border between North and South Korea was drawn, which gave South Korea some additional territory and demilitarized the zone between the two nations.
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.
Detailed explanation-5: -The fighting ended on 27 July 1953 when the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed. The agreement created the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) to separate North and South Korea, and allowed the return of prisoners.