WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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Disagreement over differing political ideologies
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Japan’s determination to hold onto Korean as a colony
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The proliferation of nuclear weapons in North Korea
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Dispute over the validity of Ho Chi Minh’s leadership
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Korean War erupted on June 25, 1950 in the middle of the burgeoning Cold War, an international struggle between the US and the USSR for world domination of their competing ideologies, Democracy/Capitalism versus Communism.
Detailed explanation-2: -The causes of the Korean War (1950-1953) can be examined in two categories, ideological and political. Ideologically, the communist side, including the Soviet Union, China, and North Korea, desired to secure the Korean peninsula and incorporate it in a communist bloc.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Korean conflict is an ongoing conflict based on the division of Korea between North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) and South Korea (Republic of Korea), both of which claim to be the sole legitimate government of all of Korea.
Detailed explanation-4: -The aftermath of the Korean War set the tone for Cold War tension between all the superpowers. The Korean War was important in the development of the Cold War, as it showed that the two superpowers, United States and Soviet Union, could fight a “limited war” in a third country.