How did the United States attempt to curb the spread of Communism after the Korean War?
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In June 1950 communist North Korea invaded South Korea. The United States came to the aid of South Korea at the head of a United Nations force composed of more than a dozen countries.
Communist China joined North Korea in the war in November 1950, unleashing a massive Chinese ground attack against American forces. 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.
This was the first hot war of the Cold War, and in it the United States demonstrated its continued commitment to containment (the idea that the US would ultimately defeat communism by containing its spread).
The Korean War begins
When Korea was liberated from Japanese control at the end of the Second World War, the United States and the Soviet Union agreed temporarily to divide Korea at the 38th parallel of latitude north of the equator. This division resulted in the formation of two countries: communist North Korea (supported by the Soviets) and South Korea (supported by the United States).
The U.S. and the Soviet Union fought as allies together against the influence of the Axis during World War II. The relations between the two countries, however, were tense. Americans have long been worried about Soviet Communism and the tyrannical rule of their own nation by Russia's Joseph Stalin. On their part, the Soviets resented the USSR's long rejection, and reluctant entry into World War II that resulted in the deaths of decades of millions of Russian citizens, as part of the legitimate part of the international community. Subsequent to the war, these grievances ripened into an overpowering sense of mutual enmity and distrust.
EXPLANATION:
- The cold war was a time of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. The 'United States' and the 'Soviet Union' were having a Cold War because they had two different economies of democratic and communist. The US tried to contain communism and the Soviet Union tried to spread it.
- The Soviet Union was communist, which is an 'economic system' wherein the govt. owns all the property and there is no rivalry between businesses. The US was democratic, which is an economic system wherein people own their own property, can have business rivalry with competing businesses, and control their wages. The US tried to spread Democracy and contain Communism.
- The US resorted to ‘containment’ which is a 'geo-political strategic foreign policy' pursued by the. It was loosely associated with the term cordon sanitaire (a barrier executed to stop the spread of communism) that was later utilised to define the 'geo-political' containment of the 'Soviet Union' in the 1940s. The strategy of "containment" is best known as a 'Cold War foreign policy' of the US and its allies to prevent the communism spreading after the end of World War II.
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