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How Did The Korean War Spread To Asia

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The Korean War, which involved the United States and the Soviet Union began on June 25, 1950 and ended on July 27, 1953. The Americans had believed that the Soviet Union wanted to spread communism to other nations. The U.S. was concerned with the spread of communism in Europe. America’s policy of containment of communism had spread to Asia. Asia was the place that the first major battle of the Korean War took place. 1950, the Korean Peninsula was divided between Soviet-back government in the north and the American-backed government in the south at the end of World War II. August 1945, the Soviet Union invaded Korea. The U.S. feared that the Soviet Union was trying to take control of the North Peninsula, as a result, the U.S. moved their troops

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