HISTORY
THE COLD WAR ERA
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The United States wanted to promote the spread of communism.
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The United States wanted to keep South and North Korea separated y religion.
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The United States wanted to prevent the spread of communism into South Korea.
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The United States wanted to reunite North and South Korea as a communist government.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Why did the United States get involved in the conflicts in the Koreas and Vietnam? Involvement was an extension of the containment policy against Communism. How did Iran play a role in the early Cold War? Allied pressure caused the removal of Soviet troops, who had attempted to secure access to oil, from Iran.
Detailed explanation-3: -When North Korea invaded South Korea in June 1950, the United States sponsored a “police action"-a war in all but name-under the auspices of the United Nations. The Department of State coordinated U.S. strategic decisions with the other 16 countries contributing troops to the fighting.
Detailed explanation-4: -“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.