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The Korean War, I would say it was a Civil War, as the initial conflict was between northern and southern parts of Korea. But in a technical stance its not a war of any type, “However, the United States never formally declared war on North Korea, China, or the Soviet Union.”(Millet,2005)It started when northern troops infiltrated past the southern border (the 38th Parallel). The battles began  “In August 1945, two young aides at the State Department divided the Korean peninsula in half along the 38th parallel. The Russians occupied the area north of the line and the United States occupied the area to its south.”(History.com Editors, 2021, para 2) The two sides had their backers, South had the US and north had Russia and later China. As the North was more for the communist/toleration government structure that Russia and China approved of they backed the north as they needed more countries to follow their path not the United States way of democracy, witch the south wished to follow.

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The war took place in Korea from 1950-1953, but the war itself had a lot more at stake. As stated that “The alternative, they feared, would be a wider war with Russia and China–or even, as some warned, World War III. Finally, in July 1953, the Korean War came to an end.”(History.com Editors, 2021, para 1). As the United States feared that potentially the war could spiral into World War III. As they saw the situation similar to the start of WWII, they were also motivated to join due to North Korea pushing to take South Korea and spread their communist system which the United States could not allow.

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In this war, there are two sides. We have corner one South Korea and the United States vs North Korea. South Korea was on the side of the Western Policies for a Republic, where North Korea was more interested in practicing the Eastern economy style of Communism. The core battle was “between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. “(History.com Editors, 2021, para 1). As the battle went on other parties joined their respective sides.

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This conflict was fought like any other war. The United States was very interested and believed that they needed to get involved. There was fear of Soviet Russia and China getting involved and spurring World War III

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The end result was Korea split into two states, north and south. North goes to practice Communist Dictator where South went to practice anti-communist dictatorship. The south does admire the United States for their help in the war. (History.com Editors, 2021, para 14)

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It was not a complete success as North Korea became a country that was all for the Communist and Totalitarian government, but when South Korea was formed we gained a new ally that does not support Communism.

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Currently, we are allies with SOUTH Korea due to our help in the war as we helped to protect their side of the conflict. When it comes to North Korea, our relationship is rocky at best. As they still have a form of government we don’t agree. Our presidents have met with their leaders but our relationship is still rocky in the political sphere.