COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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North Korea attempts to unify the peninsula challenged the U.S. policy of containment.
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Communities in Korea needed humanitarian aid due to a famine.
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International groups needed help investigating North Korean officials charged with corruption.
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Democratic reformers sought help from the U.S. military to overthrow dictatorial regimes in Korea.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What was the primary reason for U.S. involvement in East Asia during the early 1950s? North Korean attempts to unify the peninsula challenged the U.S. policy of containment.
Detailed explanation-2: -The main U.S. goal in the Southeast Asia War was to protect South Vietnam–initially from a local communist insurgency and later from conquest by communist North Vietnam. The U.S. also hoped to prevent the spread of communism to other nearby countries.
Detailed explanation-3: -The escalating US involvement in Southeast Asia was driven by the logic of the domino theory, which contended that the falling of one country to communism would result in other surrounding countries succumbing to communism, much as one toppled domino will take down others in a row.
Detailed explanation-4: -The United States intervened in Korea and Vietnam primarily for three reasons: the politics of prestige, the politics of containment, and the peculiar American approach to foreign affairs. in the United States decision to intervene in Korea and Vietnam. determination. * Truman Memoirs, 2:333.
Detailed explanation-5: -what was major reason the united states became involved in the korean war? to reflect the policy of containment of communism, and keep the spread of communism steadily halted.