... war. Unfortunately for the president, he was the victim of controversy surrounding McCarthyism and the influence of Communist spy rings. The fear of communism in America was headed by Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin. He believed there were 205 communist members in the U.S. State department (Ferrell 139). Truman knew that these accusations were the results of McCarthy being nave and essentially ... ...

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... for Soviet approval for his proposed invasion of the South and reunification of the peninsula, and received the ok from Stalin on January 17 1950. Both Kim Il Sung and Joseph Stalin thought that the war would be a quick one and that the peninsula would be reunified before the United States could become involved. They almost succeeded. The North Koreans crossed ... ...

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