... that is what led to the Second World War" according to the book The Americans: Reconstruction Though the 20th Century (615). The Soviet Union didn't have much to do with this conflict. The Chinese were the major supporters of the North Koreans. However, the Soviets did provide some assistance by providing weapons and supplies. For the U.S., the Korean War increased fear of Communist aggression and prompted a hunt for spies on whom to blame Communist gain ... . This just led to more problems between the two superpowers, The Soviet Union and the United States. In addition to supplying Nort...

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... mode (Korea, Vietnam, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Grenada, and so on. d.); creation of a system of military alliances (NATO, the Warsaw Pact, SEATO, CENTO, ANZUS, ANZYUK); speeding up the arms race and war preparations; a sharp increase in military spending; economic competition (wearing down); recurring international crises (Berlin crisis, the Cuban missile crisis, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Afghan war, and others.); conducting a massive "psychological war", whose aim was to promote their own ideology and ... way of life, as well as discrediting in the eyes of the population "enemy"...

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... this came to an end with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 . The Korean War increased tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union but brought others into the mix. North Korea, which was backed by the Soviets, invaded South Korea, on June 26, 1950 . The U.S. entered into the war on South Korea's side and this action brought China into the war. China feared that if the U.S. had control of the south part of Korea, it would ... give the U.S. strategic location for use in the future. During the war, the ... ...

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