Rachel Frantz
5/5/2014 08:07:31 am
After WWII the United States openly opposed communism and strove to keep it to a minimum. At this time North Korea supported communism, whereas South Korea had an anticommunist leader. The 38th parallel became the division between these two ideologies. North Korea wished to invade South Korea and convert it to a communist country. The United States sided with South Korea seeing as they wanted to reduce communism. Tensions were already high between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Therefore, things only became tenser with the Soviet Union supporting North Korea. I think the leading cause between the Korean War was the debate over communism.
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Elayna Muller
5/6/2014 01:17:18 am
Good answer! Did it have any good major effects? Besides providing evidence of the domino effect of communism. Did this war prove that maybe America gets involved in too many wars when we should be protecting our own instead of putting them in danger?
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Becca
5/6/2014 02:48:14 am
Good answer Rachel! Do you believe that there are any other good effects other then the domino effect and what not and how it was presented?
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Rachel Frantz
5/5/2014 08:07:39 am
After WWII the United States openly opposed communism and strove to keep it to a minimum. At this time North Korea supported communism, whereas South Korea had an anticommunist leader. The 38th parallel became the division between these two ideologies. North Korea wished to invade South Korea and convert it to a communist country. The United States sided with South Korea seeing as they wanted to reduce communism. Tensions were already high between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Therefore, things only became tenser with the Soviet Union supporting North Korea. I think the leading cause between the Korean War was the debate over communism.
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Zane Boerner
5/5/2014 01:59:58 pm
Great answer! I definitely agree with you that the war was mainly caused by the debate over communism.
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Megan Chintala
5/5/2014 11:14:45 pm
I really like your answer here Rachel!! You did a really good job supporting your thoughts and you stuck to the main idea. If South Korea would have been communist, do you think there would have been a war at all? Even if it wasn't over communism?
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Zane Boerner
5/5/2014 01:58:34 pm
After the surrender of Japan in occupied Korea, the peninsula was split in two. The northern half of Korea was influenced by Russia, and a communist government was put in place. The U.S. left southern Korea with a pro-Western government. At the time the division across the 38th parallel was supposed to be temporary. South Korea was relatively weaker than North Korea, and nationalists in North Korea wanted to reunite the two into one country again. Russia supported the idea, and North Korea was provoked even further when the U.S. said that South Korea was not in its own defense perimeter. After winning support from the UN, the United states mobilized its ground forces in South Korea to push back the North Korean army. Roosevelt's aim was to create a unified, independent and democratic Korea. Overall the Korean war was caused by nationalists in North Korea wanting to reunite the two halves of Korea under a communist government while the United States wanted to limit the power of Communists by creating a democratic Korea.
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McCall Etl
5/5/2014 04:11:22 pm
I believe communism was a large part contributing to the Korean War. The US and Soviet Union were both fighting the Japanese in Korea, but once the Japanese surrendered, the US accepted this surrender in southern Korea while the Soviet Union accepted the surrender in northern Korea. Neither side was willing to leave after this surrender, which created a divide known as the 38th parallel. On the north side of this parallel was the communist government. On the south, an anticommunist. This difference in government views led to the back and forth fighting of the North and South.
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Kirsten Comstock
5/6/2014 03:31:50 am
Caller this is a great answer. I agree that there are still effects of this war. You did a great job explaining things. Good job!
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Megan Chintala
5/5/2014 11:24:48 pm
South Korea and North Korea did not have the same idea on communism. This all started between the US and Soviet Union. And I believe that this was the whole reason and cause for the Korean War. South Korea, which US was far, was anticommunist and North Korea, which Soviet Union was for, wasn't. Therefore, North Korea started causing havoc trying to get the South into communism. Because these two had separate opinions, there was a divide. The 38th Parallel.
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Sabrina Lousberg
5/6/2014 02:23:50 am
The major cause of the Korean War was the fact that North Korea and South Korea didn’t agree on the idea of communism. North Korea supported communism and South Korea was anticommunist. The United States supported South Korea’s decision and the Soviet Union supported North Korea’s decision. North Korea wanted South Korea to be a communist country as well. They made many attempts to get South Korea to convert but South Korea refused. This created a divide between the two called the 38th Parallel. We still see effects from the Korean War today. The divide between the two countries still exists because of the continued conflict between North Korea and South Korea.
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Keeya Marquez
5/6/2014 03:20:27 am
Good Answer! Do you think that communism played a large roll in the affects the war caused on the United States?
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Becca Elaine
5/6/2014 02:59:09 am
I believe the cause and effects of the Korean War were for example the communist want to reunite with Korea. But the the rise if the Cold War was a conflict between communist and non- communist nations. At the end of world war 2 Korea divided up in two basic different Koreas and are not at all similar. As the Soviet Union occupies the north part of Korea (North Korea) and America currently is occupying the south part of Korea. Korea reunites but lasted three years. The Korean War I believed rubbed the Soviet Union and the united stated wrong. As the domino was hit every word became wrong or misunderstood. South Korea became the economic in power. North Korea is on tip top of the military rule but in poverty.
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Keeya Marquez
5/6/2014 03:18:11 am
Following WWII, Korea was divided into the North and South. The North, communist with a strong army, and the south was against Communism and much weaker. On June 24, 1950, South Korea was invaded in hopes of uniting the two countries, and seeing as the North was much stronger, Korea would no doubt becoming communist. Thus, the United States stepped in out of fear of the spread of communism. Following the war, the United States economy did grow, however, the war left 140,000 men dead or wounded. Seeing as the U.S. had just won a major war, many Americans were angered by the problems with such a "small" war. Furtermore, the Korean war created large amounts of fear in America against communism, fear that would lead to many problems.
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Kirsten Comstock
5/6/2014 03:30:30 am
There were probably several causes to the Korean War, I believe that one of the main causes was the fact that North Korea and South Korea didnt have the same view on communism. The United States and the Soviet Union were both fighting the Japanese. South Korea was anticommunist and North Korea wasnt. These two then had seperate unions and this caused a divide and the 38th parallel. There are still effects of this war today. The divide between North and South Korea is still there and they are still not on the same terms.
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