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The Korean War was waged during these years.
What is 1950-1953?
Korea was liberated from ___'s colonial rule in 1945.
What is Japan?
This person led the new Communist party in China beginning in 1949.
Who is Mao Zedong?
Korea was divided along this line.
"Truman and his advisers were convinced that the North Korean aggression was a part of the ___ attempt to achieve global domination through military action."
What is the Soviet Union?
"The Truman Administration feared that ____'s policies would spread the war beyond the limits of Korea to China which, as General Omar N. Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, observed, would be 'the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy.'"
Who is General MacArthur?
This is the number of casualties in the Korean War.
What is 5 million?
North Koreans maintain that this country is responsible for the Korean War.
What is America?
This person argued that a limited Korean War meant his nation could focus on stopping the spread of communism on a global scale.
Who is President Truman?
The Korean Armistice was signed in this month and year.
What is July 1953?
This organization authorized US intervention in Korea.
What is the UN?
This American-educated man was against Armistice agreements in 1953.
Who is Syngman Rhee?
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in ____ by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere.
What is 1949?
"In all likelihood, however, any conclusions [about the true origins of the war] will remain tentative and many questions unanswered or even unasked as long as much of the American and most of the ___ and ____ evidence remains hidden from view."
What are the Soviet Union and China?
From your article: "Despite their questionable origins, the Krushchev memoirs include a basically convincing remark.13 Krushchev says, 'I must stress that the war wasn't Stalin's idea, but _____'s. ____was the initiator. Stalin, of course, didn't try to dissuade him.'"
Who is Kim?