Following the UN resolution of June 27, 1950, President Harry S. Truman authorized US forces to support the South Koreans against the invasion from North Korea. Truman officially approved the transfer of US combat forces to Korea on June 30, 1950.
The Cold War demanded that we intervene.
Red China.
The US decided that Japan was too big of a prize to lose to communist China so they decided to protect the Korean Peninsula. Therefore they would control the Japan Sea and the South Pacific area.
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See Korean War Facts or Korean War Educator.
The Cold War demanded that we intervene.
us policy during the Korean war was to make sure N Korea understood the us would intervene if they dared to cross the 49th parallel and attack S. Korea
Red China.
The US decided that Japan was too big of a prize to lose to communist China so they decided to protect the Korean Peninsula. Therefore they would control the Japan Sea and the South Pacific area.
korean war <=-spear
South Korea. The US aided the South Koreans because the North was communist and therefore due to the Containment Policy, the US felt the need to intervene and save the South from falling to the Communist North.
See Korean War Facts or Korean War Educator.
yes, US forces participated in the korean war from 1950 to 1953
The US entered the Korean war in order to protect South Korea
They were afraid that the advancing UN forces would not stop at the border but follow the fleeing North Korean forces into China, thus invading China.
what was one of the reason why the us has been so reluctant to intervene in world war 2
For the US, Vietnam.