1. The Cold War
... and how they could get back at all of the Allies. In the 1950's, another issue polarized America and Russia. The Korean War was a major cause of the Cold War. North Korea was backed by the communist countries, The Soviet Union and China. The United States, wanting to stop the spread of communism, took the side of the South Koreans. Japan had ruled Korea from 1910 until ... involved in the conflict. President Truman remarked that "what the communists, the North Koreans, were doing was nothing new...Hitler and Mussolini and the Japanese were doing exactly the same thing in the 1930's...Nob...
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