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North Korean War Causes

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Cause of the War
On June 25, 1950, the North Korean army marches over 75,000 soldiers across the 38th Parallel. [1] They hope to invade South Korea’s capital, Seoul. While this may have been good for the Soviet Union, it is not good for the rest of the world. The Soviets want to spread communism, while the United States wants to contain communism and treat it like a disease. However, the US is not the only nation to make efforts to stop North Korea. The countries in the United Nations also intervened as well as China, but assisting the North Koreans. Since it could potentially oversee the election held in 1948, the UN declared the attack as a “breach of peace” and acted on it. [2]
American Homefront
During the war, not only were the soldier’s

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