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Military and strategic imbalance between North Korea and South Korea.

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- Soviet's support towards North Korea's invasion of South Korea
- Entry of USA in support of South Korea
- Involvement of the United Nations
- Entry of China (supporting North Korea)

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- Cold war expanded beyond Europe
- US involvement in the Asia-Pacific region was intensified
(Accelerated post-war reconstruction of Japan & SEATO was formed)
- Military tensions between the West powers and the communist blocs in Europe were escalated.

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kim il sung wanted to expand his communist influence to the whole korea. syngman rhee had democratic ideology and did not want kim to succeed.

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china and ussr militarily and strategically supported north korea. the usa, although hesitant, also aided south korea.

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n.k was more prepared then s.k in terms of weapons.
-ussr helped n.k by providing military support and economic resources.
-n.k. had soviet tanks ad training from the soviets
-n.k. also had support from china
-a.d.p made stalin realise s.k had no support from usa
-ussr attacked s.k in june 1950

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The carving of the 38th parallel, dividing korea into 2 different parts, the south and the north. The north had been occupied by the soviet, while the south was occupied by the us. They 2 different korea had different ideology. North was communist while the south was democratic

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the usa, un, ussr and china all suffered heavy casualties. the war took a heavy toll on the military, economic and human resources in north korea and in china. armistice signed on 27 july 1953, demilitarised zone drawn up

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attempts to achieve unification by south and north korean leaders. Both Rhee and Kim wanted to unfiy korea under their own rule. And were willing to use force if necessary.

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Korea was divided because of differentiating political views between USA and USSR. The USA and USSR divided Korea along the 38th parallel and governed their respective parts, but could not agree on how a unified Korea should be governed. South Korea and North Korea both wanted their ideology to be the dominant political ideology in Korea, and hence the war started

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Both Koreas wanted to unite but cannot agree to a peaceful union as leaders Syngman Rhee and Kim Il sung cannot come to an agreement on how a unified Korea was to be governed. Both leaders were very aggressive to unite Korea by force

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1. Macarthur was dismissed as he disobeyed Truman's orders and wanted to continue to invade China by using nuclear weapons.
2. Slow and long armistice talks were held
3.SEATO was formed to prevent the spread of communism, improve the economy and conduct military exercises.
4. Other proxy wars happened between the USA and USSR after the Korean War
5.When Japan was affected by war,USA wanted to rebuild the economy in Japan. The Korean war supplied military goods to the USA, which rebuilt Japan's economy.
6. military tensions between the Western and communist Europe.

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the north korea and south korea were split along the 38th parallel as part of the agreement between the two superpowers. however, the two koreas, the north and the south were discontent and sought to reunite the two, but under their regime. this thus led to a conflict

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The ussr wanted korea to act as a communist state however, the us wants to prevent the ussr from seizing the whole of korea. Korea was then split into half, the north side (for the communist) and the south side (the capitalist) however, both sides are not happy that they only have half of korea, therefore, the conflict started so as to decide who will have the whole of korea, the communist or the capitalist.

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The Soviets were interested in Korea because Korea would provide them a 'gateway' to spreading communist ideologies to Asia. To ensure that the war develops in their favor, the Soviets provided training, military equipment, and other resources. There were also Soviet advisors deployed to plan the war against South Korea. This is a proxy war because the Soviet Union wanted to maintain communist influence in Asia by fighting the USA through North Korea

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The Soviets succeeded in making the Atomic Bomb

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The Chinese Communist Party under Mao Tse-Tung wins the civil war in China

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1. Soviet support for North Korea's invasion
- provided support to north korea by organising and training the NKPA from 1948
2. Entry of USA in the Korean War
- Truman was worried that if South Korea fell to the communist the other asian countries would fall too

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> USA UN USSR China keen to end the war
because of heavy casualties

> Rhee and Kim wanted to unify Korea but had no support from USSR UN and China

>after stalin died, khrushchev wanted to end k war as it was a strain on soviet economy

> decided to sign armistice agreements + no more war!!!

>President Eisenhower (replaced truman persuaded Rhee to sign armistice agreements, informed China and the North that nuclear weapons were gonna be used.

>N. Korea and china signed as the war was taking a toll on military, economic and human resources

>agreement signed on 27 july Demilitarised zone drawn up

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the koreas initially wanted to settle this conflict locally, and the superpowers to exit the conflict while the koreas launch an attack on each other, so they would not get involved. however, the superpowers soon re entered it again, as they felt that korea is a country that is of great importance to them. thus this turned a local war to a proxy war

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Escalated military tensions between western and communist block in europe.
-Korean War led to militarisation of NATO to counter the strengths of Communist bloc and contain communism
-Long term defence plan was made to espand NATO's forces
- American expenditure on defence increased sharply from 33% of budget to 60%
-In response Soviet Union formed Warsaw Pact with East European Satellite States

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the korean war has caused more tension between the two superpowers, and enlarged the scale of the cold war. it also caused the koreas to be split till now, and the animosity to last till ages to come.

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-armistice signed on 27 july 1953 , demilitarised zone drawn up
-president Elsenhower who replaced Truman persuaded Rhee to sign the armistice agreements and also informed China and N.Korea that nuclear weapons would be used
-N.Korea and China signed as the war was taking a heavy troll on military , human resources and economy
-SEATO was formed

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With Syngman Rhee and Kim Il sung as presidents of both North and South Korea, they do not acknowledge each other as legitimate leaders and wanted to unite Korea by force. S.K sought help from USA whereas N.K sought help from USSR. USA and USSR did not want to get directly involved as they do not want conflict with one another. USSR and China's support of N.K so that they can have communist influence in Asia would mean that America would have to get involved in containing worldwide communism

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-Korea was divided because of competing views between the USA and USSR, Americans did not want the Soviets to dominate over Korea and spread communist influence.
-USSR influenced the communists to reject the results of the UN elections for Korea.

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armistice negotiations were made and lasted due to disagreement of handling of POWs. Newly assigned USSR and USA leaders wanted to end the war. China and N.K wanted to end the war because of economic toll.  Armistice was signed and DMZ was drawn up.

Japan enjoyed economic benefits due to supply of military equipment to USA