Korean War

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Post-WW2, Japanese territory was divided between which two nations?

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The United States and the Soviet Union

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Control of Korea:

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The Soviet Union controlled the north; the US controlled the south.

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1950 event that sparked the Korean War?

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Kim ll Sung, leader of North Korea, sent his army into South Korea.

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Truman sought approval to use force against North Koreans from:

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United Nations

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US generals who disobeyed orders to stay in South Korea?

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Douglas McArthur

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Example of successful US containment policy?

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South Korea remaining free after the Korean War.

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Television appearances that fueled anticommunist hysteria, ruining lives of many.

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Joseph McCarthy

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Nuclear missiles in Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis were proposed by:

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Nikita Khrushchev