COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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boundaries created by mountain ranges
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demarcation lines instituted by papal authority
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territorial claims disputed between ethnic minorities
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political divisions established between communist and non-communist territories
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer. The 38th parallel in Korea and the 17th parallel in Vietnam were used to mark “(4) political divisions established between communist and noncommunist territories", since the two countries in question are North and South Korea, which are still deep in conflict.
Detailed explanation-2: -The line was chosen by U.S. military planners at the Potsdam Conference (July 1945) near the end of World War II as an army boundary, north of which the U.S.S.R. was to accept the surrender of the Japanese forces in Korea and south of which the Americans were to accept the Japanese surrender.
Detailed explanation-3: -The 38th parallel of latitude was chosen in 1945 by the USA and USSR as a convenient borderline for their divided military occupation of the Korean peninsula. Under this divided occupation, Korea rapidly developed two ideologically different regimes, a socialist state in the North and a liberal state in the South.
Detailed explanation-4: -Contents. The Korean war began on June 25, 1950, when some 75, 000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south.
Detailed explanation-5: -Ho Chi Minh, a communist political leader, quickly gained control in North Vietnam, while French-backed Emperor Bao Dai retreated to the South. Both sides signed a treaty in Geneva, splitting Vietnam along the 17th parallel, with Ho controlling the North and Bao controlling the South.